GOOGLE FINALLY TAKES TEST CRICKET FANS SERIOUSLY

When you can't watch the match, Google now tells you the story instead

- Words By: Sohil Nikam

For years, Google Search has been the fastest way to check a cricket score. Type in “IND vs SA” during a high-voltage T20 or ODI, and you instantly know who's batting, the asking rate, and whether a collapse is unfolding. But when it came to Test cricket, the premier format of the game that unfolds over five days with shifting narratives and slow-burning drama, Google's simple scorecards often felt painfully inadequate. A Test match is not a highlight reel sport. It is a novel. And trying to understand it through a stripped-down search card always felt like reading only the last page of a book.

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