You spend hours planning for outside edges and lbws, pegging away just outside off and breaking backs bowling bouncers, sweating, despairing, hoping for slip fielders to take the catches, praying the umpires agree with your lbw appeals, debating over DRS and no-balls, and then a Test turns on a reverse-sweep. Coming together at five
Magical Samuels fires Windies to victory as players abandon strike plans
KOCHI, India (CMC) – Marlon Samuels stroked a pristine, unbeaten hundred as West Indies temporarily cast aside their bitter wrangle with players union, WIPA, to crush India by 124 runs in the opening One-Day International here yesterday. Uncertainty surrounded the staging of the contest at the Nehru Stadium after it emerged Tuesday that the Caribbean