Dead rubbers must die

“If we’re going to be poor, we’d rather be poor in games that aren’t clutch games.” – Shukri Conrad 

Telford Vice / Cape Town

WITH apologies to The Everly Pregnant Brothers — and thus also to The Specials — here’s a message to you, Rooty: your 19th ODI century should be struck from the record. Or be qualified by an asterisk that explains you scored it in a match of diminished status; in a friendly, not a fully-fledged ODI.

The game in question was between England and South Africa in S...