Sorry, Brit cricket fans, I can't help it

Many of my English friends have lately and gratefully ended nights at the pub with ‘oh, and thanks for not mentioning the cricket’. It’s actually hard to be smug about flogging the poms at cricket when your mates follow the losing side. However, I couldn’t let the greatest sporting whitewash in 85 years go by without mentioning it just once. Oooh ahhh, Glenn McGrath. Hurrah for Michael Clarke’s stunning debut, and that heroic last bastion of fair play and wicked wicketkeeping named Adam Gilchrist. Three cheers for that understated British newsreader who said ‘Shane Warne... oh how we’ll miss him’. The look on the faces of my workmates Will and Pete … priceless. ‘Nuff said.