Boxing Day Test serves up too much of a good thing even in the season of excess | Geoff Lemon

England chance their arm and emerge as winners over Australia in an Ashes half-match between two teams too hungover to careWas that fun? Was that … good? Certainly a lot happened in the Boxing Day Test. Those who paid their money saw action. But generally the cricketing public wants wickets and runs in vague equilibrium, not the odd run dribbling out of a hole in the dismissal vortex.Even the season of excess can have too much of a good thing. This wasn’t just overloading on Christmas dinner, it was saddling up for the festive meal at an all-you-can-eat sushi train with the conveyor belt turned up to five times normal speed. Continue reading...