He has won games with the ball all round the world. Hes saved games with the bat. Today he faced 54 balls with the knowledge that any mistake and his team would lose a Test, a series, become a joke. Yet he played almost every ball well. Stoically. Until Sri Lanka very nearly gave up. On the 55th ball, a world-class professional sportsman was bounced by the sixth-fastest bowler from the North Western Province and caught by a chubby slow guy from Kurunegala. The pearl and the bank clerk. Sri Lanka is a special place. ..and Jarrod Kimber is a very good cricket writer.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 06:16:19 +0000
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