The Botox has gone Toxic

If you go around in circles faster and faster, eventually you will disappear up your own arse. That would be a Being John Malkovitch moment, albeit at the other end. Right now, the game of cricket has done exactly that and has virtually disappeared up its own behind.

Goose on the Barbie (Cricinfo)

Published in Cricinfo, July 2009

David Morgan, President of the ICC might as well have been smirking in a military jacket sporting epaulets as he leaned back in his plush chair, stroking a cat, as he unveiled his latest threats to the game of cricket last month. “We are examining whether Test match cricket can be played over four days rather than five”, he announced, following it up with “I would be very surprised if within a year you haven’t seen some significant changes in Test match cricket.” Dwindling crowds and the propensity of Test matches to end in dull draws are the instigations for this apparently. Given the tumultuous and foundation-shaking times cricket is enduring, if you were hoping for reassurance from the gentlemen who purportedly “run” our sport, you were looking for a mirage in the desert. In the deserts of Dubai, in fact.