Dead Cat that put the purr back into England
The Times' Simon Barnes looks at a phenomenon that is common to all three of England’s principal ball-playing teams: rugby union, football and one-day cricket.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
The Times' Simon Barnes looks at a phenomenon that is common to all three of England’s principal ball-playing teams: rugby union, football and one-day cricket.
There is a phenomenon that money-men call the Dead Cat Bounce. The term is used when the price of a share falls calamitously, disastrously, terminally – and then, for some unfathomable reason, rises again. Not very much, and not for very long, but it bounces.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo