God help me - the Test Cricket thread

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The shorter forms of the game throw up some odd results.

NZ making the finals doesn't surprise me,  but if somebody has said Aust would make the final I'd have told them to F off.  Other results have been mystifying...the Windows,  SL and India bombing out?  England crashing at the penultimate hurdle?

Agree, it's that luck element that makes it interesting to many but reduces my interest in the short form. However, I still hope guys like Wade and Maxwell do well enough to show up the institutions ruining the long form of the game.

Maxwell is to me a modern version of Doug Walters. A once in a generation player who every 4 or 5 innings could score a ton in a session, or a triple ton in a day, runout opponents like Viv Richards and take catches like Pontin, but he's consigned to joke cricket!