I am a cricket fan, and an avid one at that, which is probably the reason that I am not over keen on 20/20. But given that we are in the sporting twilight zone that occurs between the end of the football and the beginning of the cricket season and I don't like racing cars or horses I have been watching the Champions League.
New South Wales played Somerset last night, and slaughtered them. It was also Justin Langer's last competitive game of cricket.
I was never a fan of the Steve Waugh/John Howard era cricket team of which Langer was both it's cornerstone and most avid devotee. But he always struck me as a bit of a thinker and I always admire those who make the best of limited ability.
So in a way it was a bit sad to see him go out in such unremarkable fashion last night. Facing a test strength New South Wales attack his feet looked slow, you sensed he knew what he should be doing but just couldn't do it anymore. Age, he's 38, looked finally to have caught up with him. In the brave new world of 20/20 cricket, the only Australian batsmen to have scored more first class runs than Bradman left the game, playing for an English team, against an Australian one, in India.
http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/6256.html
Pretty impressive if you ask me.
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