Let’s not talk on the field

January 10, 2008

Indian Express

Harsha Bhogle on the India-Australia cricket controversy

And so, inevitably, the tour moves on. It had to. The world of cricket is too small for the best and the richest to eyeball each other for too long. It is not over yet but everybody has an opportunity to take a backward step, so underrated and so crucial in a standoff. Cricket is, effectively, an eight-country sport, a small family, and there is no alternative to living together. Like good arranged marriages, we will have to swallow the odd moment of discontent, take sides and draw comparisons, but a divorce is not an option.

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