Sunday, March 27, 2005

Tantalisingly Close ...

There are plenty of people on the verge of landmarks in World Cricket today. McGrath needs 5 wickets to get to 500 (second fast bowler, second Aussie, fourth bowler overall) - he has 1 innings to do it - otherwise he will have to wait till August !!

Harbhajan is on the verge of 200 (sixth Indian). Tendulkar has been on the verge of a World record number of centuries for quite some time now. While no one knows when that is going to happen, another fact curiously overlooked by the media is that he requires now only 5 runs to be the highest run-scorer for India. The odds favour him to get to THAT landmark in this Test don't they ?? Otherwise he too will have to wait till September for that world-conquering Zimbabwe side.

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