(HW Classics is a section where we relive articles written in the past which are timeless. These are the articles which grow on you with each reading (well, that's what we feel anyway) and therefore, probably shouldn't be relegated to the back pages of the site.)

 
Many players in the past decade or so would have loved to punch Trevor Hohns on the nose. Gutless bastards that they are, they never took the chance when it presented itself. Clem Hill was not so reticient about showing his true feelings, and the selection meeting for the 4th test in 1912 resulted in a all-out brawl between the Australian captain and the chairman of selectors.

 
The Indian Cricket administration took an major step forward earlier this month by (finally) professionalizing the selection committee, and paying the selectors fixed salaries for their services. The selectors, in turn, chose to herald the (at last count, millionth) 'new era' in Indian cricket with one of their more dramatic flourishes of power, and with what is, beyond all reasonable doubt, an ill-advised decision by giving Dravid the grand heave-ho out of the Indian squad for the first two ODI's against Pakistan.