Sixteen wickets for Muralitharan as Sri Lanka beat England. This may not mean much to some of you, but anyone who loves cricket should salute one of the great bowling performances. The waiter put a bowl of prawn crackers on the table as we joined Grattan. I ordered a taxi to get to an Appeals Committee meeting - but no taxi. Herman introduced me to two of his Belgian friends who had come to kibitz.
Languages are a big thing here, of course.
We had a very friendly appeal between French and Croat players. The Frenchman knew very little English, so the Croat kindly translated every question we asked into French, and explained everything to him. However, when he replied, Eric Kokish, one of the members of the Committee translated. At the end of the Appeal, the Frenchman and the Croat shook hands - I wish all Appeals were so friendly.