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Wednesday, 24 November 2004

Shakespeare on Dravid

Posted on 01:19 by Unknown
That Will Shakespeare was one foresighted dude! Sensing that centuries hence I would need a couple of clever lines for my blog to describe Rahul Dravid’s dismissal on Day 5 of the Kanpur Test (after ensuring, painfully, that the match would be drawn), he skilfully wrote the following:



Wall: Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;

And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.



-- from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5, Scene 3

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