AN ASHES BORE FEST TO HAVE DELIGHTED BARNACLE

The men’s World Cup final was, by all accounts, too much for some, and a near neighbour of mine was not alone in waking up in hospital on that Sunday night croaking: “who won the super over?” Fast forward one week, to the final day of the women’s Ashes Test at Taunton, and the ambulance sirens were going off again. Albeit this time not because of a sudden spike in heart attacks, as attempted suicides.
I was trying to recall when I last watched not just a more boring cricket match, but a more boring sporting event. A...