One of the joys of being a cricket fan is following the Guardian’s Over-by-Over (OBO) commentary on the day’s cricket. I discovered it while working Malawi and trying to surreptitiously keep track of the Sri Lanka tour of England in 2006 (this was the tour in which Murali took the first 8 wickets to fall in England’s second innings before Chamara Kapugedera ran out Matthew Hoggard, much to the horror of every Sri Lankan on earth, Kapu’s friends and family included; it was followed the ODI in which we chased 300+ on the basis of twin centuries from Sanath Jayasuriya and Upul Tharanga as openers). I don’t raise this out of pure nostalgia, though it is incredibly nostalgic to think of a competent Sri Lankan team, but because of a quirk of the coverage: every so often, an over would be missed, or there would be an inexplicable 15 minute break in the coverage (you knew because you were clicking the refresh button every 15 seconds, it was not a very productive summer).