Unjust deserts – England in Pakistan, 2015

[Gangster Octopus]

Unjust deserts – England in Pakistan, 2015

A non dead-rubber ODI going our way. Makes a change.

[Etienne]

Unjust deserts – England in Pakistan, 2015

Cairns has been cleared. Working in the courts was a corrective about giving too much weight to what was reported about cases, but I'm still astonished, given the reported testimony.

[Janik]

Unjust deserts – England in Pakistan, 2015

Yeah, it does seem gobsmacking. The only thought is the jury were so disatisfied with Vincent et al as witnesses that they couldn't be sure of anything that was said.

[Satchmo Distel]

Unjust deserts – England in Pakistan, 2015

Where does that leave NZ's current captain, whose testimony the jury seems to have decided was bollocks? Either Cairns was lying or McCullum was lying, and the jury seems to have gone for the latter. But why would McCullum lie?

[tee rex]

Unjust deserts – England in Pakistan, 2015

It's not either/or for a jury. The defence did what you'd expect - found the weakest link (Vincent) and did enough to discredit him and his evidence. The waters were muddy enough for doubt.

Several volumes of background reading from the NZ Herald.

Strangely, it's as if NZ cricket is inhabiting two different worlds simultaneously. "Yeah, let's get outraged ... at Nigel Llong". I get the impression there's no public appetite for diminishing a summer of taking on the Aussies, even with McCullum at the centre of events in the "other" world.