KEY POINTS:
What do you say to a pub full of Kiwi supporters after being bundled out of the World Cup?
I found out that: "Don't worry you always have the America's Cup" was possibly the worst thing.
Excuses came thick and fast over a few pints, but after it was all said and done, it was simply another World Cup loss to team whose fans labelled them the "Team that Never Could".
Unfortunately for New Zealand Murali's catch that changed the tournament was met with howls of disgust.
Calls of can't bowl and can't catch levelled at the great spinner seemed unwarranted but in retrospect, I would have been doing the same if it were against Australia.
I even started believing the diatribe that the catch was suspect, but maybe that was because I was with my Kiwi mates
Nevertheless the disappointment, the raking of fingers across the eyelids, the total bemusement at Brendon McCullum's shot, the total disarray of New Zealand – it's no wonder the fans were disappointed.
I wouldn't want to be back in NZ if the reaction in London was anything to go by.
Their allegiance is now with the Sri Lankans and I have been promised, come Saturday, that all my mates will be wearing blue and hoping that Australia don't take their third successive World Cup.
If we fail, we have very little to look forward to for the rest of the year.
After all, we don't have the America's Cup to look forward to, the Rugby World Cup seems like mission impossible and even the Netball World Championships later this year appear out of reach for Australia.
Here's hoping that my Kiwi mates roll the bandwagon they have just jumped on and we can take the title.
