A Vintage Year ... for Cricket

Leader: What do English cricketers and French grapes have in common? They do not always travel well and both are spoiled by exposure to excessive heat. They also appear to have enjoyed a quite exceptional summer last year.
What do English cricketers and French grapes have in common? They do not always travel well and both are spoiled by exposure to excessive heat. They also appear to have enjoyed a quite exceptional summer last year.

Wine experts are waxing ecstatic about the 2005 Bordeaux. Conditions were perfect, they say, delivering a vintage almost certain never to be repeated in our lifetime. The same seems to be true of our cricket, if England's performance in India is anything to go by.

We therefore recommend buying a DVD of England's Ashes victory and a bottle of Mouton Rothschild and laying them down. Open in 30 years' time; watch and drink to the unique summer of 2005.

© Guardian News & Media 2008
Published: 4/9/2006
 
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