The VB series has been passing like days, transition from innings to innings like day into evening and then night falls, a few days later its a new day. One team or the other winning with relative ease and not too much to capture the imagination. Perhaps last night’s game was the most interesting because of the storms, the lightning. The game was reduced to a situation not unlike Twenty 20 and for me it was so much more exciting that this circumstance had come about due to natural forces. One of the issues I have with xx xx is that the excitement is built into the structure before anything happens. The great excitement of cricket, even one day cricket, is in waiting for the excitement to come about, and experiencing all the articulations of excitement that there are or will potentially be.

The tournament has provided some small bursts – the Afridi innings in Hobart, the carving up of McGrath and Lee; Symonds’ hair – seriously laying down a challenge to Dizzy as the best hair in world cricket (what matter his form when his hair is this good & he is still the best fielder to watch ever); Kaspro’s challenge to Symonds’ title of best fielder to watch ever in last night’s game; the storm last night which meant Channel 9 in an inspired piece of emergency programming played ‘One perfect day’ about Steve Waugh’s unforgettable last ball century in his pseudo last test at the scg at the end of the last ashes series, I just wept and wept all through it – it was such a perfect day.