Let me ask this again: Did Paul Harris, nobody’s idea of a good spinner, or even really a bowler, just take a wicket? Down the leg-side? After Murali Vijay spent nearly an hour playing himself in, again reaching 30-odd runs? That too sweeping for at most what could have been one run?
I don’t know how Harris takes wickets, but it always enrages me when he does. Even Graeme Smith knows this guy isn’t supposed to take wickets: he sent Harris to throw down some balls on the leg-side so batsmen, frustrated at not being able to score, would do something rash once the real stars of the show — Steyn, ahem, Steyn — showed up.
Argh! Did Murali Vijay just give away his wicket to Paul Harris?!
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Harris somehow manages to harass India. Ravi Shastri once said how we made a Lord Harris out of a Paul Harris. BTW, Harris is not bowling to the batsmen, he’s bowling to the footmarks. “If a wicket comes along, no harm”, Smith told him in the dressing room.
The worst part about Vijay’s shot, as quickly pointed out by SMG, was that he made no attempt to keep the ball down.