Karma

This is what happens when you choose to look a gift horse in the mouth Steve. You could have retired last season a hero. Instead it looks like you'll be leading Australia to an inglorious defeat in your final test. Still, this was the bowling attack you wanted (17 no balls..... a player who did that wouldn't be in my first choice team....)

From one of my favourite reports on this unfolding debarcle.

Waugh's farewell has thus far consisted of diving stops, futile chases to the fence, and the furrowed brow. The only bowler exempt from criticism was Jason Gillespie, as magnificent in patches today as he was in another futile burst, at Chennai in the deciding Test of 2001. Sadly, he was backed up by some who would struggle to get into an England side, and for Australians, there can be no greater insult.

Brett Lee pumped his fists and celebrated as though the score was 5 for 70, rather than 5 for 570, when he dismissed Sourav Ganguly. If he paid as much attention to bowling a decent line and length as he does to theatrics, he'd be one of the greats, a worthy foil for Gillespie. As it is, he's not even close. Gillespie's tremendous opening burst in the morning – when Tendulkar was feeling his way back into the game – was utterly negated by Lee's dross, which Laxman creamed through cover and midwicket with disdain.