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He's finding it more difficult to care by the day, but ESPN.com's Page 2 cricket corespondent is compelled to reveal his Super Eight at what he terms the "never-ending" World Cup.
Jamie Alter
25-Feb-2013
AFP
He's finding it more difficult to care by the day, but ESPN.com's Page 2 cricket corespondent is compelled to reveal his Super Eight at what he terms the "never-ending" World Cup.
Michael Davies, a British-born television producer, feels the World Cup shouldn't have gone on after Bob Woolmer's death, but then offers ten satyrical reasons not to care about the tournament.
Sample this:
This is beyond tragic; it is sickening. I have no idea about the motives for the killing, but I can guarantee this. If Woolmer's death is related to cricket, then his killer hated sports. Had no appreciation of sports. Knew nothing of sports. To kill someone in the name of sport is to kill sport itself. This event died the moment that Bob Woolmer died.
with this:
Despite now having lived half of my life in America, despite the fact that I now pronounce schedule "skedule," shower every day and visit the dentist regularly, despite having been exposed to the pure joy that is the NFL, the NBA, the Little League World Series and even NASCAR, I still love marmite, and I still love cricket. Even if I have to watch it in a window the size of a postage stamp on my computer.
Davies doesn't care if Bangladesh beat Ireland in the final, but hopes England win.
Jamie Alter is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo