What a match it turned out to be between the proteas and the aussies yesterday - 872 runs in a single day - mind boggling and dizzying to put it midly. What gumption and what guts by the south africans. Not the actual win itself but the belief that they can have a go at that mammoth score without being daunted and intimidated is something really great. Gibbs went on the rampage after smith savaged and blunted the vaunted auzzie attack and them boucher sliced through the bowling like a hot knife would slice through butter. The guys who were there in the stadium would have never dreamt that they would see such a contest and probably would never stop talking about it I guess.

Back home the indians routed the english with munaf patel the great kumble skittling out the barmy army and then marching home without much fuss and this in a truncated test match. Anil the indomitable fighter has gone past 500 wickets. What a man, what determination and what endurance especially being dropped in the ODI's and always getting the stick of the so called critics who endlessly churn out the same old stale and plebian and sickening stuff of kumble not spinning the ball , not turning enough and so on. Well what did those who turned do? did they take 500 wickets. A great salute for Anil Kumble.