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His bat has spoken

Posted on September 4, 2025September 11, 2025 by admin

His bat has spoken

This piece was written on the 10th December at the Cricket Club of India in Mumbai 

His bat has spoken

 

“If the ball is doing something, then you‘ve got to fight it out- its about having resolve and showing character.”

 

Sourav  Ganguly in an interview with Lokendra Pratap Sahi ,The Telegraph ,9 th December 2007.

 

“It is great fun to play with Sourav because he is also an attacking player. Batting with the man who had supported me so much in the past always generates fun and excitement.”

Yuvraj Singh  in an interview with The Telegraph ,9th December 2007

The cricket test was a phrase coined by Norman Tebbit i referring to supposedly questionable loyalties of immigrants to the United Kingdom in 1990. It is also known as the Tebbit test.

During the 1980s and 1990s there was a perception in parts of the UK that some immigrants to the UK did not have a primary loyalty to the UK, but continued to identify with their countries of origin. The most infamous expression of this was made by conservative politician Norman Tebbit in an interview with the LA Times He said: “A large proportion of Britain’s Asian population fail to pass the cricket test. Which side do they cheer for? It’s an interesting test. Are you still harking back to where you came from or where you are?”[1]

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