Or of the Declaration of irritable refused a sensitive drummer and his first and only century against the Australia key? Or the connecting often sore supremo/Manager/coach and Captain?
Or a weakness for horoscopes? Miss Barbados? Pedal boats? A captain flouncing a conference press and position for the theatre? Motions of CMC of confidence in the Test and County Cricket Board?
There is no leakage: when English cricket team is something of an anomaly. They are not only excellent but also very beautiful and very sensitive and thoroughly professional.
Steering team Andy Flower and Captain Andrew Strauss work closely, are sensitive and mature, speak honestly, accepting blame, where it is due and well-deserved success.
Combine their batsmen flourish and grindstone, their bowlers guile and muscles, and for those who believe that it is a bit too complacent, there is the pantomime of Kevin Pietersen sideshow and arm left spinner.
The great shame is that it y if few people in Cardiff to see this England - so confident, so good - catapult out sri Lanka to 24.4 overs. Just 922 in all Monday, with at one time only 39 people shivering landside of soil.
You cannot blame the fans, the weather was miserably cold and wet, and play has not yet started up to three hours. The players themselves expected to come.
Session waiting for cricket, first rain cascades down your back and adhesive jeans as a wet membrane is really not much fun.
And as you give not to test only the eastern part of the country, the ECB cannot really be attributed to the formidable grey clouds sweeping off the coast of the sea of Ireland.
It is concerned that Cardiff had not been able to sell more tickets in advance. It was the first time that the home fans had the chance to see in England since their victory of ash in the winter and Sri Lanka, even without Muttiah Muralitharan, are still a team to make look.
The other international grounds around England casting of expensive reconstruction work will be swallow hard: despite the end of fairy tale, Cardiff look as if they lose about 1 million £.
Unfortunately for administrators, a singularity in cricket is that people feel not only they do not have to be a game to feel part of it, but they are not watching television. Much read and live their cricket through the newspapers.
Observe the crowds through the doors with the Lord Friday. A large number will carry a newspaper cleverly folded with a selection of light snacks, cushion, umbrella, and hat.
It is a report much more high paper the viewer that you would get in a game of football or rugby - in fact I strive to think of another sport that that you would take commonly a log in with the concept of express read while a game is actually played.
And for those who find their papers Friday, in the woods of St John can see you not only another magnificent performance, a voracious Chris Tremlett and Jonathan Trott fervour, but perhaps a small technical hitch, nothing too large or discouraging, just a little hiccup to help develop the moral courage of those who are too young to recall the work of the former England.
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