4th and Final Test: West Indies v India at QPO

Cricket - a sport that generates billions in TV revenues split so unevenly between ten teams that the infrastructure can't deal with rain

Bad news, folks.  Expected nonetheless. Called off  !!

Hand shakes all around.

The presentation will happen at 11.30am 

While we lament Test cricket conditions around the world, lets take a moment to realise that Pakistan, who don't play at home, are No.1.

West Indies have now featured in 3 of the 5 shortest Test matches:

10 balls bowled at North Stand vs England in 2009
61 balls bowled at Kingston vs England in 1998
132 balls bowled at Port of Spain vs India in 2016

The two other matches in the top 5 are:

72 balls bowled at Kandy between Sri Lanka and India in 1993
104 balls bowled at Trent Bridge between England and Australia in 1926.

4 of the 15 shortest Test matches have now taken placed in the last 2 years:

West Indies vs India at Port of Spain in 2016 (132 balls)
India vs South Africa at Bangalore in 2015 (486 balls)
Bangladesh vs South Africa at Dhaka in 2015 (529 balls)
South Africa vs New Zealand at Durban in 2016 (598 balls)

Pakistan have done wonderfully well to reach No 1. And they've done so with a dignified accomplished man as captain

Time for the presentation

Virat Kohli:
Lot of play stations and training in the gym," he laughs, when asked about the team's schedule for the last four days. "It's pretty disappointing to turn up and see there's no play. We all want to do something or the other. Someone's been doing something or the other. At the ground, we've been itching to do something. I said it when we became No. 1 that it was a short-term incentive. Other sides have played 10-15 Tests more than us, so it will keep switching. We can judge ourselves better at the end of our home season.

Jason Holder:

It was a difficult series for us, but we had quite a few positives. We looked set to compete at certain stages of the game. We just have to close out crucial moments in the game. At crucial stages, we faltered a bit in this series. Going forward, we need to seize those moments. India played some very good cricket, they had people put their hands up at different times. Credit should be given to them.

We're looking forward (to the series against Pakistan in UAE).

The bowlers have put their hands up in the last few games,

hopefully we'll compete better. ..

hhhhmmmm : weather pateerns are changing Globally ?

Tsunamis et cetera  :-\

boereport.com/2016/08/15/yale-poll-globa...issue-than-abortion/

Ironically, the Yale survey notes that people with the most extreme positions on

global warming on both sides were the  best-educated groups on the science.

Individuals skeptical of global warming were at least as well educated as ardent believers

www.washingtonexaminer.com/pew-americans...ange/article/2579150