Boxing Day Test: Will Rohit Sharma and Usman Khawaja, Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant, finally stand up?
“Sin”, screamed the text on his black T-shirt. He was standing on the steps of the Flinders Station, near the federation square of Melbourne City centre, and evangelising about how to save oneself from the sins. “Just the right time before Christmas Day”. A irate lady walks to him, muttering something, and she is politely asked to move away. Then an Indian-origin man walks across to him, laughs, and asks what about the day after Christmas: “Who will win the Boxing Day Test?!” The man mumbles and shoos him away, “What boxing day Test? What are you talking about?” Laughter erupts among those milling around. An artist chalk-drawing a portrait of Mother Mary on the pavement laughs too. It’s Christmas Eve evening, and yachts are bobbing on the Yarra river. People walk here and there, on the br...
