The Biggest Loser

England losing to Sri Lanka by 10 wickets with 10 overs to go was a pretty dismal effort, the symmetry of the scoreline only serving to magnify the scale of the thrashing.  Not one wicket taken.  You really shouldn't be getting clobbered like that in the knock-out phase of the World Cup. 

As bad as that was though, England weren't the biggest losers of the evening.  Not even close.  For at the same time, we also had the State Election results in NSW.  Such was the one-sided nature of this contest that the words "bloodbath" and "slaughter" were being used to describe the result.  And that was in the opening remarks to the coverage - before there were any results to report on.  I've never seen an election where there was so much certainty before they started counting.  And so it turned out.  According to Luke Foley, who had the unenviable task of being the Labor spokesman for the coverage, it was their worst performance since the 19th Century.  Now that's some defeat.