Onya Ishant

I've dissed Ishant Sharma so many times on this blog (despite him being a Delhi boy, or perhaps because he is one and I expected more?), that I'm now obligated to tender an apology. That spell of bowling was an excellent one, and the amount of trouble he had Ponting in was incredible. And at the end of it, he snared quite possibly the most important wicket of all. The Australian captain himself. India desperately needed this wicket - going to lunch with no wickets in the first session would have been extremely dispiriting.