Like an exquisite cover drive

Nobody can write about cricket more eloquently than the English.
The Sunday Times opened its coverage of the India-England series with, among other things, a piece by Martin Johnson.
I can’t give you the link because it’s a Murdoch title – which means they charge for it online. (They need the money to pay hackers and cops).
Anyway here are two gems:
“Tendulkar running a legbye can produce a crowd reaction not unlike a Beatles concert.”
“And Ganguly was a fine bastman, but never quite came to terms with a game in which you had to do your own running.”