Christopher Martin -Jenkins, The Times’s cricket correspondent and Test Match Special commentator, has an op-ed that is well worth reading on the excessively heated atmosphere during the Trent Bridge Test in this morning’s paper. The game was definitely not played within the spirit of the game. England’s scattering of jelly beans at the crease, apparently designed to distract the Indian batsmen, was pathetically juvenile. (It was a sweet irony that the pumped up victim of this prank, the Indian bowler Zaheer Khan, swung the game India’s way in England’s second innings.) While the beamer that Shantha Sreesanth bowled at Kevin Pietersen was downright dangerous. Let us hope that the last Test of the summer at the Oval is played in a better spirit.
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