Early last week while watching that unmerciful ball bashing at the hands of Virendra Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh with a cricket friend of mine we were rather intrigued by the gesture of the latter batsman when he reached his three figure mark.
Within a matter of eight days the Sri Lankan cricket machine had taken an almighty beating at the hands of the Indians. The performance in the ODI series in Bangladesh was not all that convincing. They lost to Bangladesh in the head to head clash and were on the verge of suffering another humiliating defeat in the finals, until Muralitharan’s heroic deeds with the bat brought about a miraculous victory.