Staying on message

A superb assessment of the not-so-Super Series from Gideon Haigh in the Guardian:

The 3-0 clean sweep was over by 8.48pm, so that there was time for the crowd to go home and catch a remake of The Poseidon Adventure on Channel Seven, thereby watching two much-vaunted vessels capsize in the same evening. In fact, some remained to boo the World XI at the presentation ceremony. "I'm sure that was a friendly boo," said the MC, Simon O'Donnell. That's what they call staying on message.