It is the lot of the cricket reporter's life, especially when there is a big tournament on, to go through
days,
weeks even, celebrating the mediocre. Someone
gets runs against ordinary bowling, and you overdose on the
superlatives - it is the World Cup,
after all.
And then - very rarely, but just often enough to wake us all up - a champion comes along and shows you what this game is really all about. And what it is not.
