West Indies' great Brian Lara said Adrian Barath's courageous century on debut should serve as a lesson to the rest of the team that there is nothing to fear about the Australian team.
Gautam Gambhir has regained number-one batting spot in the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen after his 8th century helped India record an innings and 144-run victory over Lanka in the 2nd Test.
The crowds will still throng the stadiums to see and appreciate a well contested Test match, while the players themselves have always maintained that this is the format they would love to excel in as it is the highest form of the game.
I say leave the sport how it is and let the umpires, who are increasingly professional and competent at what they do, oversee the game in the manner which they were created to do so.
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