God help me - the Test Cricket thread

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I reckon Cummins will quit as captain, go home or be replaced by the end of this tour.  Something isn't right and his thought processes appear erratic.

Just speculating, but this sort of shock can set in whenever the Nimby generation get exposed to life in the real Mumbai!

Some think India is all like Goa, colourfully dressed gardeners, palms swaying in the breeze, incense parades and tasty vegetarian curries. The problem is before this most have only been exposed the IPL T20 India, glitz and tinsel,  more Hollywood and Bollywood, receptions for heroes. Then in a test series they are the enemy, they get the raw Mumbai and reality sets in, beggars, poverty and smog, smog like you have never seen before, enough to turn you green, and open sewerage flowing down side streets, it can be a bit overwhelming for them. ( On a bad day Melbourne smog(ignoring bushfires) might rate a 20ppm, on average a 10ppm, on a good day Mumbai is 200ppm on average it's 250ppm! (It's like living in a mechanics workshop with all the truck engines running!)

Cummins green mentality just became irrelevant as he was exposed to the real problem, his high and mighty Nimby stance was squashed by global monolith! (FWIW, this is much the same in regions of China, Indonesia and SE Asia when you get away from tourist type destinations and into the industrial / manufacturing areas.)

I've seen this happen to people I travel with so many times, all up beat and buzzing ready to go, then ................! :o Cummins is not alone on this tour I can see several like that, you need a certain stoicism that goes way beyond physical capabilities, Alan Border and Dean Jones had it in spades.

As much as I personally love travelling to India and catching up with many of it's people, it's probably one place I would never take the family.