The shame game
Of all sports, cricket has the most special quality to inspire superior prose. At Portsmouth yesterday, it was Rahul Dravid (Kent) versus Shane Warne (Hampshire).



The art of dying
Death seems so easy in Kerala. Almost as if it were a way of life. Just another way to breathe. Exhale instead of inhale. They are all embracing it just as easily and almost as subconsciously as the dead peacocks did in Morena.



Twelfth man
To say that the extensive raids at farflung establishments of some of current Indian cricket's greatest names have come as anything of a surprise would be overstating it.



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