Déjà Vu at the MCG

Here we return to December 2021 and some Christmas Ashes cricket from the Melbourne Cricket Ground and yet more déjà vu for a crumbling England cricket team and the search for black cats "lurking in the corridors of my mind" and for Trinity and Morpheus in a Matrix clearly built by an Australian!

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"Rising from my Boxing Day slumbers after a lovely day with my teenage son and turning on the Telescreen, I was immediately struck by a sense of déjà vu, a sensation that would pervade my thinking throughout the morning’s play before hitting every England fan like a freight train in the evening’s session. I searched in vain for a black cat and sadly Trinity wasn’t available to join me for the cricketing action live and direct from Melbourne, and even Morpheus refused my telephone calls.

The signs were not looking good.

I may have still been asleep, half asleep maybe, but as soon as I turned on the television the déjà vu really began to kick in and I was beginning to regret my reasoning for purposely waking myself from Morpheus’ dream world.

For the last eight hours, 3 cricketing sessions and even “Acts” if you wish, there wasn’t a black cat in sight and perhaps my sleep deprivation has me searching for answers inside a Matrix, and a Matrix seemingly curated, created, and constructed by an Australian.

Déjà Vu was all around us, from ball one until that last Act, that last hour of today’s play, and one of many final nails in England’s Ashes coffin. I kept searching for that black cat all night and couldn’t find her, but if you ask England captain Joe Root tonight about black cats he’ll swear blind he’s seen them for the entire duration of his stay in Australia.

His team have suffered bad luck for sure, they’ve been kept collectively in the field toiling away in the energy sapping heat, and they’ve collapsed under the immense weight and pressure of playing an Ashes Series in Australia. They’ve “won” sessions but not days. They’ve impressed in small passages of play but not come anywhere near winning the ultimate goal, a Test Match. As you’ll read on below there have been yet more recurring sessions of back’s to the wall, dogged determination and chinks of encouraging light. But that light has been there to blind us all from the truth: Australia are rampant and England are the rampaged.

Hour after Hour.
Session after Session.
Day after Day.
Test Match after Test Match.

Déjà vu anyone?"

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