my loyal readers you may remember a scoop that was broken by one of my superlowkey cricket infiltrators back in 05 regarding glenn mcgrath and the transformation he was preparing himself to undergo immediately the right moment arrived. Further research into this unusual, perhaps slightly unreasonable, tactic of mcgraths reveals that it is not a new strategy, but in fact a process that has been going on since the beginning of time. As in the contemporary moment we await the morphing of glenn mcgrath into glinn mcgrith, there was a historical moment in which another cricketer passed into the mcgrath state. And before that a whole metempsychotic series of precedents to what is most easily referred to as glenn mcgrath. There is a character in popular japanese mythology known as gankutsuou, or the king of the caves. This figure is the immortal energy of purified revenge that embodies itself in chosen beings unleashing series of vengeful action. When gankutsuou leaves the cave & possesses its next fast bowler everything becomes vast & the rhythms of the cloud shapes are made significant by its power.

before glenn mcgrath there was garth mckenzie. if the anagrammatic closeness of the names and the matching smile lines around the eyes are not fully convincing, documentary evidence exists in which passers-by declare themselves to have witnessed the moment gankutsuou inhabited the garth. This line appears in garths player profile – nothing seemed to ruffle him, although when stirred he [was] possessed [by] a wicked bouncer.