Self-interest turned upside down and inside out on fluctuating day

By Malcolm Knox
Updated December 29 2017 - 12:48am, first published 12:43am

"In the race of life, always back self-interest; at least you know it's trying", said the long-ago NSW premier Jack Lang. Lang was born in the same year as Test cricket, a pursuit in which the inherent self-interest of the competitors is sometimes overturned by the game's sheer perversity.