Ashes 2015: Luck really is a fortune

By Malcolm Knox
Updated September 3 2015 - 10:18am, first published August 28 2015 - 11:07pm

The biggest taboo subject in sports is luck. For players, to admit that luck dictates results is to surrender control of their destiny. If coaches admitted the role of luck, there would be no such thing as genius, just a demonstration of Napoleon's preference for lucky generals over good ones. And for those of us who chatter about sport, where would we be if there was no "Why", no "Because", nobody to praise or blame?

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