Over the last two and a bit years, I’ve had the most remarkable run as a sports fan. Three of my favourite (four) teams have pulled out huge victories when this looked absolutely impossible. The Red Sox rallied from 3-0 down to the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS, Liverpool came back from 3-0 down at half-time of the Champions League final, and now Australia pulled out almost the “unlikeliest victory of the lot”:http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ausveng/engine/current/match/249223.html. On one of the flattest pitches in living memory, England went from 1/59 overnight to all out for 129. Warne bowled about as well as I’ve ever seen him bowl. I was really only watching because I thought even in a dull draw, he’d be worth watching. And it was a masterclass.

Anyway, if you see a few cricket photos turn up in the upper right corner, that’s why. One of them, the one where the batsman looks one way, the ball is the other way, and the off-bail is airborne, is from a split-second after Warne bowled Petersen around his legs. Great stuff. There’s nothing else is sport quite like top-rate leg-spin bowling, and getting to watch Warne, perhaps for the last time, is a real luxury.