India, Aug. 3 -- When Washington Sundar and Ravindra Jadeja rejected England captain Ben Stokes' proposal to stop the match about an hour before the scheduled close of play and accept a draw as a result in the fourth Test at Old Trafford, Harry Brook made a comment. "If you wanted a hundred, you should have batted like that earlier." It was a distasteful comment in every sense for two batters who were fighting to save a Test match.

Sundar and Jadeja both went on to get their respective centuries before agreeing to shake hands with the England players. In reality, they could well have batted on till the close of play and England could have done nothing about it. They didn't. Fair play to them. If he hadn't, no sportsmanship daggers should...