Perhaps it is a giant leap from watching Pakistan play Australia in England to assuming that South Africa playing Sri Lanka in, say, Mysore is what cricket needs.
Muttiah Muralitharan signed off from test cricket not only by scaling bowling's impossible peak by reaching 800 wickets in test cricket but also helping his team to win the first test match.
In a delicious irony of timing, the book was released shortly after the whole IPL bubble burst and the nation finally woke up to what Jha (and a few others) had been prophesizing since 2008.
After witnessing all four days of the tournament, I've decided to name the All-Tournament XI based on the performances and achievements during the tournament.
Whatever figure Murali finishes with is likely to stand forever given the diminishing interest in Test cricket, and despite his own modest assessment that someone like Harbhajan Singh might go past that figure.
It's been quite interesting to see the reception that teams that have been knocked out of the football world cup have been receiving in their countries on their return home.
With the MCC World Cricket Committee coming out strongly in favour of day-night Test matches to save cricket's traditional format it surely is no more a question of whether but when the inaugural Test under lights will be played.
The former Australian Prime Minister John Howard may not have been the ideal candidate for the presidency of the International Cricket Council, but that assumes there is such a thing as an ideal candidate.
