If I was more skilled, I would weave together a story about cricket and elections.
Or, to put it another way, an archaic game of complex strategy, which uses words never heard elsewhere, has just come to a conclusion nobody understands using an arcane method that many people find hard to accept.
Yes, England just beat Australia by 40 runs (calculated by the Duckworth Lewis method.
In another example of cricket mirroring life, Afghanistan just handed out a spanking to a more established country, beating the West Indies by 63 runs. I use “country” in the cricketing sense rather than “a sovereign state and a member of the U.N in its own right.”, as they say on Pointless.
Sadly, I’m not that skilled and that’s as far as it goes.
Really I’d like to add a homilly on walking, as it’s something some politicians could learn from cricket.
And finally, an off-colour joke about googlies and I’m done…