Australia completely and utterly blew India off the park at the World Cup Cricket final in Johannesburg

Shock & Awe

No, I’m not talking about Baghdad or cruise missiles or anything along those lines. I’m talking about something important. The way in which Australia completely and utterly blew India off the park at the World Cup Cricket final in Johannesburg. I mean, seriously, at the risk of sounding narcissistic, how fucking good is Australia at sport? In case you’re not really familiar with cricket, it is by no means an international one-horse race. It’s not like rugby league where Australia is so untouchable that the other team might as well not show up. And to go through the tournament undefeated (that’s 12 games, not including the 5 games previous to that, making for a grand total of 17-straight wins and counting, the record by 6), go into the final and get 359 runs in the first innings (for the uninitiated, that’s a LOT, the highest ever in a World Cup final) against the team who, apart from their defeat at our hands in the first round by 9 wickets, were also undefeated in the tournament, is an amazing feat. Oh, and in case you’re not familiar with how fanatically cricket is followed in India, I think this will give you some idea. All I can do is chuckle.

In other news, the Oscars have been confirmed as going ahead in a more limited capacity on account of the invasion of Iraq. As expected, I still failed to give a fuck.

(unless Nicole wins)