Today Dilshan made 195 runs.
The scorecard, however, says only 109.
The rest of the runs go to a cricketer who this very website has questioned the existence of.
The obvious reason was that Dilshan’s last 86 runs were so mindfuckingly spectacular that if we really saw them, it would have blown our little minds.
Instead, yet again, our collective conscious chose to invent this Mathews.
Before that Dilshan was good, but not so good that it would destroy our minds.
The “Mathews innings” was good, eye catching and important, but in the end it was safe enough that we could except its reality.
Regardless of all this Fake Angelo Mathews nonsense, this test is poised perfectly.
Sri Lanka’s scoring rate and India’s constant wickets have meant that this game can go either way, which is about all you can ask for in a deciding test after the first day.
If Angelo existed, he would agree.
