India 1 - 0 Sri Lanka
India 1 - 0 Sri Lanka
Stuck in the past: the last-match syndrome
"Iron out your flaws". Guwahati, you took it a shade too literally, and as a result, we're going to have an Indore game today. Perhaps this time, the weather won't goof around with the spectators' hopes, or you know, hang them out to (blow) dry. Not much has changed over the past couple of days, and nor, presumably, will the teams.
Furthermore, not getting affected by the last ball constitutes one of the simplest-to-understand, yet hardest-to-execute virtues of cricket. It is, perhaps, more vital to pick up the relevant cues - and the same goes for the last-match syndrome. However, if one zooms out, it's hard to deny the overwhelming run-glut that beckons, tilting the contest in India's favour more than a side-on bowler with acute scoliosis.