“Just when I thought I was out … they pull me back in,” growls Al Pacino’s ageing mobster Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III. The one-time mafia boss has been at pains to legitimise his ways and go straight, but an attempt on his life has made him realise that his efforts to stay on the right side of the law are futile. Once a mobster always a mobster.
Pacino’s scenery-chewing words are conjured when Virat Kohli plays one of those back-foot smites for six down the ground. They’re there again when New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips – the man with the name of a big-band leader but the athletic grace of a prima ballerina – pulls off a gravity-flouting diving catch. They’ve been on repeat for the past fortnight since the T20 World Cup got under way.
