An excellent day’s cricket that could and maybe should have been a stone-cold classic, superbly covered on Sky Sports, and it fell to the channel’s emerging star man Stuart Broad to ask the question that fans were all thinking on Sunday evening when he wondered: “Still 20 minutes away from possible start time, everyone has their sunglasses on at the train station. Felt the supporters deserved to see a finish to that Test Match today. Felt a lazy decision to call it off at 6pm in my opinion. I wonder who makes it?”
Broad was right to query whether the umpires and ground staff could have done more, nailing the key moment of the evening’s narrative, and with an eye for the provocative as well: further evidence that he is shaping up to be the complete all-rounder in his media career in a way he once, briefly and thrillingly, threatened to be on the field of play. As long as Varun Aaron doesn’t reinvent himself as a TV critic, there seems to be no stopping Broad’s frictionless glide towards cricket media world domination.
It is cloudy in this part of London. Rain is coming the capital’s way this afternoon but unless England take two hours to get the 35 runs they need or India the same amount of time to get four wickets, I do not think we will have any problems finishing this match and the series.
