And turns rubbish as soon as we draw attention to him. Dheeraj Jadhav, playing in the quarter-final of the Duleep Trophy, was dismissed for 28 by Sanjay Bangar today.

You may remember Sanjay Bangar from decades such as ‘the Eighties’.

Should probably write about Bangladesh v India or the IPL auction or something. Have decided to do a follow-up to a 2006 post about Dheeraj Jadhav instead.

If you read that post, you’ll see that in 2005 we tipped Gautam Gambhir for great things, but only to ourself. Being as Gambhir’s hit a hundred in each of his last five Tests and you’ve never heard of Dheeraj Jadhav, you might think that we named the wrong man.

Well, yes, you’d probably be right. However, there is a weird symmetry with Gambhir’s recent achievements. Here are Dheeraj Jadhav’s last four first-class innings: 114, 111, 165 not out and 49 not out. Those figures demand context as well.

• The 114 was the highest score in the match. The next highest, in any innings, was 43.
• The 111 was the second highest score in the match. In all, there were two hundreds and two fifties in the match.
• The 165 not out and 49 not out were in the same match. There were no other hundreds and only three fifties in the match.

What’s our point? Our point is that we don’t really have much to say about Gambhir’s five hundreds or Eoin Morgan being signed to play in the IPL.