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But Langer’s mendacity, and Parker’s possible cowardice, is less interesting and salient for our purposes than the question of whether or not Gilchrist, too, was lying: ‘I didn’t hear anything—absolutely nothing.’ These were his words to a press conference later that day. But many spectators heard it; Roebuck heard it; Langer’s own team-mates heard it; even his father heard it. The claim is also crucially at odds with Gilchrist’s own memoir, in which he affirms that ‘there was a noise, but it was inconclusive.’ It is difficult to say what he could mean by this. The bat had been nowhere near either pad or turf; it could only have been leather. As a ‘walker’ himself, Gilchrist is acclaimed for his probity. Someone ought to ask him about this episode.

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—Rodney Ulyate
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