(Cover) Drive.
You know when he is on the field. Whether it be at 2nd slip "ooh"ing even when the ball missed the bat comfortably, or riling up the crowd before every ball is delivered. Watching a test match with him on the field is proper box office: every ball is an event, and you cannot take your eyes off the screen. --- No one saw it coming. In the middle of a test series down under, the incumbent stepped down and retired. Thrust into captaincy, the new captain only had one thing in mind: win. Trying to chase 360 against Australia? Even the most optimistic fan wouldn't have seen that coming. But his logic was simple: "only if we try, we can know na?". --- Test cricket is, at its heart, a bowler's game. It doesn't matter that your batting lineup is star-studded, if you cannot take 20 wickets a match, you simply cannot win. No one understood this more than him. From the ill-advised Karn Sharma selection, to playing four tailenders in the team, no matter the conditio...