Australia v India
'Just a quirky habit' or 'plain cheating'? Smith scuffing incident divides opinion
"What was he thinking — if he was thinking anything at all?"
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Australia v India
"What was he thinking — if he was thinking anything at all?"
"Players who laughed in the face of disability and proclaimed: 'Tis nothing but a scratch, sir!'”
"To Victorian eyes, the raw deal handed to the ‘A’s’ was just the latest slight to add to our existing…
"That’s my kind of cricketer, far more than Steve"
"I knew for sure that my heart was lost forever"
"There was hope, once; the promise of a different future"
"It was life-affirming collective euphoria"
"The history of the game is full of curious culinary yarns"
"Just because you can bowl at 90mph-plus doesn't mean you have to bowl two yards shorter"
"When it comes to actual scraps, when the game becomes more Laurel and Hardy than Ali and Frazier"