Monday, April 17, 2006

More bluster from the Master

He's honed the art of pre-match talk to a fine, fine game. From the man who worked with the Master of match-fixing or, maybe, from the man who mastered the art of match-fixing comes this piece of pre-match drivel being passed off as tactical talk. It's just anoher tamasha yaar. So let's all try and have some fun, can we? Let's not bore the people who've come for an entertainment show with serious talk about how deeply scarred the losers of this 'desert jamboree' might be. The fact is, two matches in the middle of summer in a cricketing outpost like Abu Dhabi do not matter, will not matter and will end up being little more than nothing a few weeks after they've been done and over with. Remember those matches played in...doesn't matter where. Do we remember? No, we don't. so, please, please Mr. Woolmer, we know you're having a great time with all this pre-match talk. Thank you for doing your bit of 'promotion'.