... unless you're interested in cricket. In which case you might like to read Gideon Haigh, one of the very best of contemporary cricket writers, on Australia's defeat by India at Adelaide:
[It] is not an entirely new Australian problem. The failures of Plan A at Calcutta and Headingley in 2001, for instance, also seemed to generate some confusion about the exact nature of Plan B.Shamelessly, I use this item as a peg on which to hang another plug (can you hang a plug on a peg? - no you can't, it's not that kind of plug, but what the hell?) for my book Men of Waugh: Ashes 2001. I have a gripe about Headingley 2001, not exactly unique to me, but I haven't yet found anyone who has given it such a closely argued analysis. How can you resist? The book is available here, here and here - or directly from me. The earlier book, Ashes '97: Two Views from the Boundary ditto. If you order both from me, there's a good bargain offer.
