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Test cricket has been a long time coming to Rajkot and one of the visitors at the ground was a man called Murphy S. Law. He took an instant liking to the Indian team.So far, at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, everything that could go wrong for Virat Kohli and his men, has gone wrong. Thursday was particularly brutal. They had to contain England; instead they conceded 19 fours and two sixes in the first session. It was the equivalent of a village under attack taking the time to line up for their enemy and give them helpful little pointers. Theres milk and cookies on the table as well, dears. If you want to clean us out, youre going to need your strength.An England line-up in which all eleven had first-class hundreds batted on the days when this pitch was at its best and put on 537. India have never won a Test at home while tackling such a big deficit. They were facing the impossible primarily because of how badly the morning had gone.The bowlers were in total freefall. There were substantial spells of play - like between the 110th and 120th overs, when the run-rate was over six - when it felt like they had hit rock bottom. That feeling was all the more acute because of how pleasantly for India the day had begun. India took the new ball straight away. Mohammed Shami had recovered from cramps. The field was brought up. Moeen Ali, on 99, was greeted with a bouncer.The next over, Umesh Yadav bowled one on the pads. Whacked. The next was short and wide. Whacked even harder. The fast bowler also had to stomach a perfectly good ball being clobbered away without any footwork from the batsman. From that moment on, England enjoyed a half hour where they found a boundary every over.Poor Umesh copped the worst of it because old Murphy S. Law just wouldnt leave him alone. When he came back for a second spell, he induced Ben Stokes outside edge on 61 and then again on 62. Both times Wriddhiman Saha dropped the catch. The first one, perhaps, came at him a bit too quickly. The second, though, was a simpler chance and he would have taken it had he moved to his left before putting in the dive. He would have gained an extra yard of distance, not to mention a better foundation to then spring towards the ball. Saha, being one of the best wicketkeepers in the country, would know this. The way his head fell face first into the ground almost seemed like he wished he didnt. Then he might have had an excuse.Although, would it have been accepted by a bowler who had created four clear chances? Umesh had drawn nicks from Alastair Cook and Haseeb Hameed the previous morning. They had been for nothing too. He could have saved India more than a hundred runs. He might have entertained chances of becoming the first bowler to take a Test five-for in Rajkot. Instead, he finished with 2 for 112, and Stokes turned his first Test run against India into a match-defining hundred.There were 139 runs in 30 overs before lunch. That got England to 450 far quicker than even they might have hoped.Playing catch up in Test cricket is never fun. It requires a team that had been beaten badly to return to their best overnight and maintain those levels for insanely long durations. Its a little like missing the only bus and having to run behind it whilst it zips through an empty road. You have to first keep up with it for however long it takes until a little bit of luck comes along. A red light, perhaps.India managed to get close enough a couple of times but just as the light turned red - Stokes chances - they tripped over their own feet and fell splat on the ground.At this point, you need miracles. Like R Ashwin conjuring wickets out of thin air. A square turning offbreak. A sneaky straighter one. A little too much dip. Something. Anything. He has done it for India so many times but Stokes wouldnt let it happen here. He scored 39 runs off 58 balls using 19 scoring shots, five of which were boundaries. Ashwin suffered through 46 overs - the last time he bowled that many was in Delhi against South Africa trying to break through their stone wall - and gave away 167 runs - the last time he was that expensive was in 2012, coincidentally against England again. Looked like Murphy S Law had taken a shine to someone else in the Indian camp.Then he went after the big one. Since taking over the Test captaincy, Kohli has almost always found himself in a position to boss the game. Briefly, in Jamaica, he was forced to bang his head into a wall, but India were already 1-0 up against arguably a weaker opposition. In Rajkot, he was forced to concentrate on not going 1-0 down.Kohli had to set defensive fields, then watch Stokes pierce them. He gave one of his best bowlers, Ravindra Jadeja, only one over in the morning, persisting instead with Amit Mishra, who was conceding runs at more than four per over, in the desperate hope that wrist spin could get more out of the surface. He went haring back from midwicket only for the swirling ball to just about evade his dive. When he looked up, he saw M Vijay, who had run in from long-on, making the valid point that it was his catch. Guess who the batsman was. Heres a clue. He has red hair, bats left-handed and hits the ball really, really hard.This has been happening in cricket for years, Jadeja said as explanation for the missed chances. The batsman who is dropped often goes on to get a century. Ben Stokes was missed two or three times. Two or three fell in no mans land. Thats a part of the game.He also tipped his hat to Mr Murphy S Laws biggest contribution in Rajkot. The toss took the game away, Jadeja said. Everybody knows the Rajkot pitch is good to bat on for the first two or three days, and then the spinners come into play. What is on the board we have to match somehow.M Vijay and Gautam Gambhir had taken to that task well enough. 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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Two men who helped integrate college basketball came back to Vanderbilt University this week to share provocative views on the pace of change, take up matters they rarely dared to address as students, and describe the racism they encountered on their journey -- indignities they once endured in silence on the Southern campus.The return of Perry Wallace and Godfrey Dillard, part of a candid conversation unfolding this year at Vanderbilt, marks the latest milestone in the schools long, sometimes painful history with race relations.It had been 50 years since Wallace and Dillard huddled together in the locker room at halftime of a freshman game in Starkville, Mississippi, holding hands and trembling after rival fans spat, yelled slurs and threw things at them on the court.Like many Southern universities a half-century ago, Vanderbilt had few black students and faculty members. Those who did enroll were excluded from fraternities, sororities, clubs and religious organizations, and often faced segregation at hotels and restaurants when traveling away from campus.Today, as campuses across the nation see a resurgence of activism and try to come to terms with institutional racism, the wide lawns and stately buildings at Vanderbilt could not be called a hotbed of protest. But the school has more black faculty members and students, who say theyre sometimes the only faces of color in a class but have more people to talk to about their experiences.In recent years, university officials have made clear that diverse opinions are part of Vanderbilts fabric -- a point they made once again by inviting Wallace and Dillard back to campus.Wallace, the first black basketball player in the Southeastern Conference, had been back to his alma mater occasionally. But Vanderbilt had never invited Dillard to return, in part because his time at the elite private school ended early in his junior year.Both men say Dillards activism led to his demotion from the basketball team. As campuses nationwide roiled with unrest, Wallace, who grew up in Nashville, said his teammate from Detroit didnt know how to be a slave. Dillard, who was president of the Afro-American Student Association, pushed for more black professors and students and for better pay for campus workers.Things began to thaw for Wallace and Dillard at Vanderbilt after Strong Inside, a 2014 book by Andrew Maraniss, brought their story back to the forefront. It became required reading for incoming freshmen. An art exhibit on race, sports and Vanderbilt opened last week.This week, Wallace and Dillard joined Maraniss for the James Lawson lecture, named for a black civil rights icon with his own Vanderbilt story. Lawson was expelled from Vanderbilts divinity school inn 1960 for teaching the art of nonviolent protest.dddddddddddd He later was welcomed back as a distinguished professor and alumnus.Meeting with mostly minority students during a Tuesday luncheon at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center, Wallace called it a shame that current black students still have some of the same concerns he and Dillard did.Devastated by his demotion, Dillard went home to Detroit. He finished college at Eastern Michigan University, earned a law degree from the University of Michigan, and went on to become a civil rights lawyer. When his turn came to speak, he struggled for composure.This is the first time in 50 years that this school has invited me back, he told the students. Ive been invisible for a long time.Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos extolled Vanderbilts pioneering role in integrating SEC basketball but said things could have been handled better.We always want to be more inclusive, more diverse, to ask hard questions, Zeppos said. But we cant go forward without understanding our history.Athletic Director David Williams, who is black and also from Detroit, pushed to invite Dillard back. He noted that Zeppos recently pushed a pay increase through for university staff but said more progress is needed.During the Lawson lecture, attended by the entire freshman class, Wallace, an American University law professor, encouraged subversive thinking, advising the students to steal away to a place where they could form their own opinions.Dillard, who successfully defended race-based admissions at the University of Michigan in a case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, called the diverse assortment of students faces in Langford Auditorium a beautiful sight. Fewer than two dozen black students were enrolled when he was at Vanderbilt. Now, about 13 percent of faculty and 17 percent of undergraduate students are minorities.If it wasnt for their sacrifices, I wouldnt have it as easy here and couldnt focus on academics and feel comfortable on campus, said Tuzo Mwarumba, a black freshman from Stillwater, Oklahoma. Things are definitely improving, and Im glad Vanderbilt has taken the time to focus on inclusion. And Im grateful that they recognize that theres work here still to be done.The shared experience of being a minority student at Vanderbilt and the need to not go it alone bridged a 50-year divide. That became clear at the luncheon, when Dillard thanked Wallace for making sure he was invited back.Nobody wants to go to war alone, Dillard said. You always want to have one person with you -- so if you dont make it, at least the other person can tell what happened. ' ' '