Finding Netherland or Neverland? An ICC story

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Until Louis Figo, the dapper Portugese captain beguiled the Netherland's football team by getting them a red card from an over-enthusiastic match referee, the Orange men looked fairly threatening in Deutsche land. To rub salt in their fresh hurting wounds, the ICC (International Cricket Circus, oops, Council) had prepared a week-end carnival in the form of a One-Day match against Sri Lanka, who by sheer coincidence had hammered the phlegmatic Poms mercilessly just a few days before, scoring 322 runs in 38 overs, thereby thrashing the Ashes aspirants by a somewhat lop-sided 5-0 whitewash, which would do Berger Paints proud. Thanks to ICC's continued self-obsessed streak manifested in myopic frames, the comedy show continues unabated. While half the universe gulped beer, munched potato fries, and either went into wild hip swinging celebrations or contemplated doses of ant-depression pills Depending upon how patriotic passions and personal favorites played out....