at one level cricket is basically all about sensation – the modulations & articulations of emotion it makes you feel. Its a long time since we Australian followers or the Australian players have eperienced this dull morbid pain and the intesnity of the long face. Andrew Symonds and Dizzy Gillespie – as they have been with their haircuts – are our torch bearers in bringing this to the world. Symonds is the little boy made to sit outside at a childrens birthday party, Dizzy simply doesn’t understand why the powers of his epic legend have suddenly deserted him – there is probably the work of rival gods afoot here.