Re the Ashes whitewash (5-0 to Australia) and death by cricket, MoL offers the following:
Q. Have you seen Zidane? The movie?
A. It’s really good. Because most of the time he isn’t actually doing anything, he’s just waiting for the event. That’s what I love about cricket. There’s something about it that’s pure phenomenology. Sometimes I look at it and I think, ‘How can this not be German?’ It’s all about death and the event and waiting for the event and the event coming and being repeated and replayed. In German the word for event, or at least the one that Heidegger uses, is Ereignis, which also means arrival. So it’s about waiting, which is why I’m saying cricket is so perfect. It’s about the arrival, that never quite arrives.
(Tom McCarthy in The White Review)