The Chuckle Brothers would have been proud of Steve Smith and Aaron Finch in Bangalore. Although they probably would have blanched at the reworking of their “to me, to you” catchphrase into “yes, no, bugger!”
Run-outs are rarely so slapstick. While not on the scale of the peerless Alan Donald and Lance Klusener debacle, that the mix-up in the deciding ODI of a brief tour of India featured two masters of their craft, and at such an innocuous juncture in the contest, made it notably jarring. The maxim of controlling the controllables that governs so much of modern professional sport was momentarily shattered. We saw the glitch in the Matrix.
