Being a lover of sports and a man with a nose to the ground, two words in the English language intrigued me more than the rest. At the same time I tried to understand the meaning of those two words, taking them in their present context where local sports are concerned.

This second Test in Trinidad, the home of calypso and carnival, is turning into a really closely-fought tussle. As I write, with two days finished, the game is on a knife-edge. By the time Sri Lanka wakes-up on Sunday morning...

As I write, we have just returned to our hotel rooms after an exciting second day’s play in the second test against the Windies at the picturesque Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad.