New Hitchcocks in Indian cricket

By John Cheeran
Indian cricketers certainly have a streak of Alfred Hitchcock in them.
This team, whenever they are away from the pitch, should attempt in authoring scripts that leave you exhausted and exhilarated.
Or bloody well cursing the authors for putting them through these agonies such as in St. Kitts. Indian cricketers prefer to dance with defeat. They almost did at St Kitts thanks to the fourth day morning collapse engineered by skipper Rahul Dravid and other middle order worthies such as Mohammad Kaif and Yuvraj Singh.
If not for Brian Lara’s foolish decision not to enforce the follow on, India would have been in bigger trouble. I would not know about the deteriorating nature of the pitch from this distance but to their credit, Indian batsmen did live up to the challenge in the second innings.
If only Virender Sehwag stayed for one more hour at the wicket, India would have won this Test. Losing Sehwag immediately after the lunch, Indian chase began to lose the tempo.
There certainly was hope with VVS Laxman in cracking form. Laxman played some wonderful strokes but on a day when he had to stay there a little while longer he too had some urgent business to attend elsewhere.
Skipper Dravid soldiered on at the other end as only he could, ensuring that all the good work in he first two Tests is not frittered away at St. Kitts.
So that so, scores remain 0-0 in the Test series. This is already extra time folks!