Wednesday, January 10, 2007

"Serving" in solitude

India's most prolific Ranji Trophy batsman has the following scores in the 5 games he has played in this year's edition:

154
71
4 and 62 not out
103 and 49
119 not out

A grand total of 562 runs at an incredible average of 112.40 in 7 innings (3 centuries, 2 fifties).

You will probably never guess that the batsman is Yashpal Singh. He is just 25 years old and will probably never even get a sniff of India colours as he toils for the "Services" team in the Plate division of the Ranji Trophy.

I wonder how good he really is. He couldn't be worse than some of the more heralded names that have played for India in the past decade, could he?

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