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We’ve had a few one-sided games at this World Cup (read: all of them), but today was a lot of fun. South Africa were always behind but weren’t quite out of it until the end. And when Bangladesh used to win, it was a huge upset. These days it’s just a result. They looked the goods and their supporters lapped it up.

Thanks for all your correspondence today. Will Ryan writes in. “Been loving all the sassy commentary from the Guardian, thanks for an entertaining Sunday... Can’t wait for the highlights!” I don’t know that I’ve ever been called sassy. I feel like Meg Ryan.



Andy Bradshaw writes, “The most depressing thing for SA fans is that you can’t even call this a choke, it’s been inevitable since about the 20th over of the Bangladesh innings.” Quite so.

And Peter Salmon to see us out. “Not sure how many of your other correspondents are having to read Derrida’s ‘Specters of Marx’ as they follow the game, but just had a very, very interesting moment.I was reading an analysis of Hamlet’s phrase ‘Time is out of joint’ and how the aporia implied is related to the notion of anachrony in Marx, when I flipped over to OBO to see your sentence ‘Duminy reviews, but it won’t help him’. Strangely, until I refreshed I didn’t get the rest of the paragraph, just the next few overs with Duminy still batting despite your injunction - in other words a superb example of just the sort of aporia to which Derrida is referring, especially as it made the dismissed Duminy appear to continue as a sort of spectral presence, at once dismissed and yet still in. Quite a thing, hope your other readers are as amused by the whole thing as I am, and they can feel free to tell the story at their next dinner party as I intend to. Cricket, hey?!”

Enough from me today. I’m off to romance Tom Hanks.

