![]() “An India win would galvanise their fans/viewers, and that’s important, but the most valuable move to ensure Test cricket flourishes is to let more teams play it, and that can only be done by funding associates much better,” writes Romeo. And he was particularly brilliant at hoodwinking inexperienced players: from memory that was Maynard’s fourth Test and Hollioake’s second. He was probably the greatest rogue psychologist I’ve seen in any sport. I particularly love the Hollioake one because Warne’s somehow got him to leave a ball that pitches in line with the stumps - but you need to see how he did it.” “I don’t recall either the Hollioake or Maynard dismissals that clearly (because in those days I couldn’t watch television in the office) but I know there would have been a number of big spinning leg breaks in the balls before to convince the hapless batter that this one was going to be just the same. You need to see the build up to it and the way the whole thing is put together. “ It’s like watching that Morecambe & Wise sketch with Andre Previn but only looking at the bit with the piano. “What’s missing from those Warne clips is the set-up,” says Richard O’Hagan. He’s in this for the long haul, or at least he intends to be. 16th over: India 61-3 (Kohli 9, Rahane 7) A couple of singles take Kohli to nine from 26 balls.
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