Adam's Values

Here's to the one definitive swashbuckler of the modern day game. Superstar stumper and marauding bat, Adam Gilchrist came with the customary Australian pluck. But after the genial Mark Taylor, Gilly has also been the sober other-face in a side that redefines in-the-face aggro. At 36, when the willow still hits them sweet and long, he has pulled out. With the easy grace and no-hassle composure that's, perhaps, second nature to The Australian. Thanks for the entertainment.

Just like yesterday

The flavour is 80s. Ilayaraja on the mind. The Bangles on the computer. The weekend has been a willing bow-down to the decade of pop culture excesses.


And John Rambo is around. Bloody, yeah. Do we mind?

Stutter

Take One. I'm stuck.

(a cigarette later). This is embarrassing. I'm like the child on stage, with the lines all muddled up. Send in the cheer, people. I'll need all that and more for Take Next.