Hairy moments and the Twenty Twenty Final

So, India are world champions at 20/20 - woo hoo! Much celebrating all round, and I am very pleased for my adopted country. I'd like to think that I played some not insignificant part in their success. Those keen followers of Chaos Theory (butterfly flaps its wings, causing a storm on the other side of the world etc etc) will doubtless agree with me that this is indeed entirely possible, via some strange series of events that my coming to India may have triggered. Let's see if we can construct a scenario:

(i) Mike buys his return plane fare to India in August

(ii) The purchasing of his ticket triggers a threshold in British Airways' sales targets and as a result they decrease the price of London-Bangalore tickets for the remainder September

(iii) As a result, Yuraj Singh's brother, a deprived student studying in London, can now just about scrape together the air fare for a trip home to India in September to see his parents

(iv) The parents, delighted, share this news with Yuvraj (one of India's leading batsmen), and his mood is lifted as the unfortunate situation of his poor brother has been preying on his mind for some time now

(v) No longer carrying emotional baggage, Yuvraj is liberated to play his natural game as a free-spirit, swinging his bat with gay abandon and scoring vital runs to propel India to success

... and various other such likely scenarios, which I'm sure flood into your mind - flood like the relief the Indians felt when that last catch was taken after some hairy moments.

And speaking of hairy moments - the poll has closed and the results are in! A resounding vote overall from you to keep the beard, with the results as follows:

Dare to wear hair: 70%

Smooth and sexy: 10%

Who cares, he looks damn fine either way: 20%

So thanks to all of you for taking part, and as a speacial treat some photos of the wonderful whiskers:

(i) Matthew Kelly? (ii) Member of ABBA? (iii) Matthew Corbett?