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The crowds at Eden Gardens are known to be fickle

A frail young man ran in a half-circle across the fecund green in an attempt to catch a mishit by a South African batsman, and 90,000 people in the stands of Eden Gardens — lulled into half-sleep by the mellow November afternoon sun and the steady batting of Gary Kirsten and Daryl Cullinan — rose up, roaring like the Bay of Bengal on a stormy evening. The young man fumbled and fell, and dropped the catch in the process. “Too much gallery show,” said a wizened cricket lover sitting beside me on the concrete stairs. In 1996, Eden Gardens still