Sunday, March 20, 2005

Man Of The Day (Day 4: Dinesh Karthik)

It is indeed cruel that an innings as classy as Rahul's 135 couldn't earn him Man Of The Day on either day but you have got to hand it over to the youngster today. Just for a moment today when The Maestro appeared a bit rattled after Ganguly and Laxman's departure in the face of a hostile spell from Sami, Karthik showed the maturity to absorb the pressure and put away the bad balls with panache to build a mammoth, parhaps match-winning partnership and in fact helped Dravid regain his composure.

Indians have dominated the match on 3 of the 4 days and hence should deservedly go on to win this one.

UPDATE: Talking about wicket-keepers, the Legend Of Adam Gilchrist has indeed completed the century I was mentioning earlier in typical style - a boundary second ball after lunch

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