(ESPNcricinfo)- When talking about Indian cricket, and the conversation has made all its usual pitstops – how good they are, what they could do better – there sometimes comes a moment for reflection. For everybody who makes it, there are hundreds who don’t. The BCCI is in an eternal state of ‘better to have and not want’ than ‘need and not have,’ which must help, because their team is about to play a fifth ICC men’s white-ball final in the last 11 years. Exactly the same as their opponents on Sunday by the way, which is funny because in 2023, New Zealand made a major breakthrough. The ratio of sheep to people in their country hit a 170-year low. At five to one. In favour of sheep.
“Obviously the talent that comes out of India is phenomenal,” Glenn Phillips said on Friday. “You know they could probably pick three sides that would compete just as evenly in this World Cup.”
Oh GP. Don’t give ‘em any ideas.
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