....the completion of the FIFA world cup recently & ongoing Test Cricket series with England hv gobbled much of our leisure time ....Test cricket is real treat to watch .....India lost the well contested Edgbaston Test ....Imran khan's prophecy on India Cricket hit hard as he spoke recently at Pataudi Memorial inaugural Lecture on "Tiger Pataudi" & Indian Cricket ....a strong advocate of Test Cricket he forbade excessive attention to the shorter form of the Game ...the top order fell like a pack of cards with Kohli as exception with little application ....missed terribly the likes of Tendulkar , Dravid ....the T20 has brutally decimated the Gentleman's game ....there are no more "Walls"....the Patience to build an Innings.....missed Dhoni though in the middle order , he cud hv stemmed the rot .....Test Cricket is the ultimate test of batting , Bowling & Fielding skills ....its a great pleasure to watch bowlers having long spells with varieties of arsenal unleashed frm their armament .....whn Holding , Roberts , Croft & Garner bowled with the new ball & the little master Gavaskar with Farokh engineer facing thm bravely without helmets .....some Cricket it was ......now a Stokes , an Anderson, a Broad is rattling the hell out of the top order ....Kohli impresses....a trace of the old order in his repertoire ..... FIFA world cup was an even more let down .....the individual brilliance in players appeared jaded & the games just routine .....here the fault lies with the Leagues prior to the Finals ....Cobbling up National teams with tired players will surely rob the Lustre from the FIFA world cup finals .......much like the T 20 in Cricket ....the Defence & Defenders hv turned out to be croppers in the quest of all seeking a goal .....in the process conceding a many .....Missed Italy....
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