You'd expect that to be the sentiment of any American watching a cricket match. Potentially you can play for five days and still end up with neither team winning. But no, that's the view of BBC cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew as he watched the farce that is the Cricket World Cup Final.

Have a listen to Aggers' bout of depression using the audio panel below. With Sri Lanka on 150 for 3 having just re-emerged from a rain break, Agnew was told (apparently erroneously, it now seems) that according to the notorious Duckworth-Lewis method, Sri Lanka had lost two overs-worth of batting but still had to get the same number of runs. He wasn't thrilled.

"I can't work it out. I'm beyond working these things out. How can there be no change to the target? If they were to chase so many off 38 overs, why are they chasing the same number off 36 overs now?

"It used to be a straightforward game, this. You ran up and bowled, and someone hit it. It's a mad game now."

Seriously, listen to the audio version though. The tones of voice from Aggers and his summariser epitomise world cricket's lunatic tendency.

Update: Australia have just won after a bizarre sequence in which the umpires offered the Sri Lankan batsmen the light, the batsmen accepted, Australia thought they had triumphed, Glenn McGrath pulled a stump out of the ground, the umpires said the game hadn't finished, they took the stump back, put it back in the ground, then made everyone carry on.

Here's a second clip from the BBC commentary - the final ball of the 2007 Cricket World Cup, in what television pictures showed us really was absolute darkness. It could be an Eddie Izzard sketch, but it's the actual commentary from the final ball of the finale of cricket's showpiece competition: