Hash v KP: the sacred and the profane

I wrote this for the December edition of GQ Magazine. It seems apposite to post it now.

TELFORD VICE, Johannesburg

Leonardo da Vinci painted his mountains blue. Glance past Mona Lisa looking languidly at you and, indeed, the peaks extending to the left and right of her, many miles from where she is smiling her forever beguiling smile, swirl with a deep, moody blue.

In the edifice of modern cricketers, who are ranged at least as far from their obsessed public as the mountains are behind Mona Lisa...