There are winners and losers in sport all around the year. Medals and trophies appreciating sporting excellence are handed out every other ...
There are winners and losers in sport all around the year. Medals and trophies appreciating sporting excellence are handed out every other day in some part of the world or other. Words are written about those achievements to preserve the memories. Often, it is not mere victory or defeat, but the triumph of will that inspires the best of sports writing.
India’s defiant effort at Sydney Cricket Ground was not a win. It is one of things that writes easily into a cricket joke: “hey, remember the time when 22 players (not quite, if make concessions for the injured Indians) fought for five days in a cricket match and in the end there was no winner? How crazy is that?” But it is true: the events in Sydney from January 7 to 11, 2021 had drama that matched the best of wins or the worst of defeats.
Here’s a selection of six articles from around the web that do a stellar job in reliving the moments of epic battle we witnessed the third Test between Australia and India:
Prithi Ashwin, having witnessed her husband Ashwin Ravinchandran go through the wringer at SCG a day after barely being able to sit or...
