to groove their games and adapt to English seaming conditions, the Australians were delighted to find bounce and carry that was more Queensland than Kirkstall. Nothing underlined this more than David Warner's four catches, excellent takes in which he got far better sight of the ball than he had done when dropping them at Lord's. Not unlike Nagpur in 2004, a blueprint devised to succeed overseas had its culmination in conditions so oddly familiar.

How did Josh Hazlewood, James Pattinson and Pat Cummins bowl together for the first time on the most important day of the 2019 Ashes series? Not quite by intelligent design, but not completely by natural selection either.‘The Russian Winter’ an Unlikely Journey

When watching the 94-minute Petter Ringbom documentary The Russian Winter, the viewer is left with a singular question: why has it taken so long to make a movie about John Forté? The musician’s life story certainly seems made for film: growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn, New York, before attending one of the best prep schools in America (Phillips Exeter Academy), receiving a Grammy nomination for his work with the Fugees, spending seven years in prison for carrying $1.4 million in liquid cocaine before having his sentence commuted, and finally embarking on a tour across Russia.

The Russian Winter, playing until April 29 at the Tribeca Film Festival (which viewers can also take part in purely online), is essentially a documentary about