"Troy, by our standards, is a tiny village near the Dardanelles. What made its siege the most immortal drama in our culture was the length of time it took. If Achilles and Hector had been made to fight only for a few minutes, nobody would have bothered to remember: in other words, if it had been a Twenty20 game or a one-day international." - Scyld Berry

The Cricket has been fantastic at the moment; there is something about test match cricket that can't be matched. Five days of competition where any one moment can change a whole game; you can be on top for four days and lose it on the fifth, you can have a seemingly guaranteed win snatched from you by one stubborn batsmen or one gifted bowler. I wanted to write another blog here about why I love this sport, why I think it's better than any other sport in the world because it can give days on end of tension and excitement, how any one man can change the whole match and yet it still takes a team to win. It's gladiatorial and also communal. (Twenty20 and ODI cricket are not the same in the slightest, they're like Cricket for people with a three second attention span.) But I'm not going to write it, partly because I've spoke garrulously of my love for the game before and partly because Scyld Berry has done a marvellous job of explaining it here at the Daily Telegraph. I particularly love the Troy analogy; it hits the nail on the head in a way few people could.

Scyld Berry: England and South Africa show how to sell the long game