The Maestro returns and gets screwed over by D/L

I woke up up early this morning with a sense of expectant premonition (but I always do that when Sachin comes out to bat, so best not to read too much into it) and opened the cricinfo page to find him not out on 99. Brilliant way for me...er... him to make my...er... his comeback.

Batting on a cabbage patch with basically a ditch at a good length for right handers, our hero braved all the odds and showed his enemies that there is life in those thirty-three year old tennis elbows yet.

Of course, the only enemy he couldn't conquer was the calculus of variations or quite possibly abstract algebra that goes into the Duckworth-Lewis method. For the uninitiated, this is a technique used by umpires to determine an "effective" score in rain interrupted one-day games. It basically involves them futzing around in the umpires room, chatting about the wife and kids and then pulling a random number out of their arses when the match referee shows up and asks them what they're doing.

Complete bollocks as usual. Someone shoot the ICC.