India's batting - hundreds galore

Why do India seem to make mammoth scores as a matter of course? England are rubbish at it. Having reached 521-6 in the second innings of the first Test against the West Indies, India's batsmen have followed that up with 588-8 in the second Test.

Earlier in the year, we wrote an article for someone about how all of India's batsmen had gone past 150 many times whereas only a couple of England's batsmen had managed it at all. We compared frequency of double hundreds as well and did a sort of head-to-head thing like they always do in the paper.

We thought it was exactly the kind of article that cricket publications liked in that it was full of statistics and vaguely hinted at the outcome of a Test series. Nobody wanted it. It was probably because whenever we try and take writing seriously the product is as dull as our dress sense.

We could try and give a quick overview of that article because that's the kind of thing we're supposed to be writing here. We're not going to do that though. We've a suspicion that somewhere within that article there was a sequence of words that caused us to be "found out". We don't want to run the risk of inadvertently repeating those words here and scaring you all off.

Actually, reading this post back it's quite dull. We seem to have channelled the spirit of the article without using any of the content. We knew it was a cursed article. When we get home tonight we're going to take it outside and give it a damn good shoeing.