DAY 3 , SATURDAY 5TH APRIL, 2008
SPORTS: FEARLESS IN THE BOX – DAY THREE ( SATURDAY 5TH APRIL, 2008) – of the 2nd Test Match between the West Indies and
By Andre E Baptiste
----- SAY A PRAYER FOR
Benjai’s West Indian anthem “Fed up of the same thing, over and over “comes to mind………………
There was urgency though in the air at the start of Day 3, and it was not only the Sri Lankan team or our West Indians who sensed the rare smell of victory for both teams. This on paper was supposed to be another victory for the third ranked test team over the lesser lights of an eight placed West Indian team.
Like Melville’s ocean or twain’s
For most people in the wider world, outside the ten test playing nations, however, cricket makes no sense.
Even in the
Perhaps one of the problems is that cricket concedes one musky truth about masculinity: hitting a man with a cricket ball is sometimes the most satisfying response to being a man. Disturbing maybe, but there it is.
Some of us on Day three of a compelling test match go through life feeding the athlete inside with weekend-warrior games of touch rugby, season tickets to test matches and pro league football, tailgate parties and war stories of what it was like to play any sport.
A lead of 75 to 100, we asked for on Friday, but
The small crowd sighed and prepared for a Sri Lanka onslaught, but for the first time in this two test series, both Sri Lanka openers (Vandort and Warnapura) feel cheaply and a stunned into silence crowd, blinked twice, because by the end of over number two, the score read – Sri Lanka 4 for 2 (trailing by 16 on first innings, not to be forgotten).
When their two star batsmen Jayawardene and Sangakkara fell in consecutive overs to Fidel Edwards and Darren Powell, the
Now the word spread and by lunch time , the Queens Park oval was awash with more fans than before, at 99-6 , the smell of victory seem to have caused Captain Chris Gayle to become over intoxicated and then it happen…
Poor fielding, errant bowling, blind umpiring ( Thilan Samaraweera was as plump LBW of Dwayne Bravo as anyone , I have seen even from the stands but Billy Bowden of the crocked finger thought otherwise), loss of composure and finally the fight was being extinguished and we were all settling down to what we know – worse cricket from the West Indies.
The beneficiaries , 31 year old Thilan Samaraweera ( with a test average of 41 , punished the West Indies with his sixth test century ) and Chaminda Vaas , together , their seventh wicket partnership of 138 , may prove to be the telling point in this close contest.
Day 4, Sunday, will need some heroic batting from the
If you are in Church this morning – SAY A PRAYER FOR THE
By the way, the man I don’t trust, still has not called, maybe he too is FED UP.
:: AB
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