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He had one of those natures which called to you and in whose presence you felt it was good to live. Thus wrote Frank Iredale of Victor Trumper, his colleague on the 1899 Australian tour of England. Many contemporaries echoed Iredales sentiments and in the 101 years since Trumpers death from Brights disease, his reputation has grown to legend. Cricket writers have strived and sometimes strained to express their admiration of his batsmanship yet none of them come close to that picture in capturing the elusive magic.George Beldams 1905 image Jumping out for a straight drive is surely the most famous photograph in the history of cricket. Certainly it is the most reproduced, for it has appeared on the covers of countless books and on letterheads and posters; it has been sculpted, etched, reprinted and woven; it has even been the symbol for an internet chat room.And in 1975 it appeared on page 89 of Great Australian Cricket Pictures, where it first came to the notice of a young Gideon Haigh. Thus began a 40-year fascination with Trumper that has culminated in Stroke of Genius, which in the authors words is an iconography, a study of Trumpers valence in crickets mythology and imagery.It could be argued that Haigh has sold himself a little short there. For his latest book is more than a study in polysemy and its related fields, invaluable though that is. Stroke of Genius includes passages on the early history of photography, the development of cricket in Australia and the changing ways in which Australian writers like Jack Fingleton viewed the game. And it is perhaps appropriate that a cricketer whose method was exclusively his own is the chief subject of a book that defies easy classification.But if the librarians at Lords or the MCG are uncertain as to which section Stroke of Genius properly belongs, there need be no doubt about its quality. This may be the book Haigh was destined to write, and he has not been overawed by the occasion. While one might quibble at the absence of an index, one enjoys everything else.It is not only Haighs familiarity with his material that makes this book a triumph. He has three qualities rarely found in conjunction: he is a very good scholar, a very fine writer, and he also understands that what he describes is often best understood in its wider non-cricketing context.The sections in the book where these skills were most interestingly in evidence, at least to this reviewer, were those on photography. Again this is only fitting given that the centrepiece of the book is that wonderful moment of incipience captured by Beldam 111 years ago. Haigh begins the relevant chapter with a quotate from Emile Zola that could serve as an epigraph to the whole book.I dont think you can really say you have seen something until you have taken a photograph of it, which reveals all the details you would not otherwise have noticed - and which in most case cannot even be seen. Soon afterwards the reader is learning about gelatine emulsions, focal-plane shutters and the other innovations by which Beldam sought to refine photographic technique, and that would lead to the production of Great Batsmen: Their Methods at a Glance, which was published with text by CB Fry in 1905 and which included the famous image of the best batsman in the world at that time. Thus an English photographer, who like Trumper followed his own method, helped preserve the powerful image that was used as Australia sought to free itself from colonial associations and establish its independence.Trumper lifted [cricket] to a level of art beyond the reach of all but himself, wrote Bede Nairn in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. And, in achieving this, he reworked the charter of cricket from a Victorian artefact into an Edwardian palimpsest, with spacious Australian flourishes all but replacing the English script. The nature and variety of further Australian flourishes inspired by Trumper, a few of them rather eccentric, are carefully chronicled by Haigh in this rich and rewarding book. So rewarding, indeed, that one wonders whether another edition might be published, rather following the example of Edmund de Waals wonderful The Hare with the Amber Eyes, in which all the photographs, some of which seem a trifle cramped in the current version, could be reproduced in full clarity.That, though, is another cavil at excellence. For the moment, anyone remotely interested in why players like Steve Waugh were so interested in the style of cap worn by Trumper can do no better than buy Haighs book. It will take them back to that glorious image of an Australian cricketer who took the art of batting and reinvented it after his own fashion.You know that photograph. It just sits in your mind and your memory, said former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd on dedicating the SCGs Trumper Stand in December, 2008. Yes, thats right, it really does. Get the modest acceptance speeches ready, Gideon. 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But theyve come up short in their major tournaments to date, from the BTS Overwatch Cup (fourth place as Team SoloMid) to falling out at the group stages at the ESL Overwatch Atlantic Showdown, to being eliminated before the Round of 16 at the Overwatch Open after being upset 2-0 by both Method and Rise.compLexity got off to a good start against Misfits in the semifinals, holding Misfits for a long time at Temple of Anubis, but found themselves unable to take advantage, Misfits holding onto the final point by the smallest hair and clearing the field in overtime. When Jake torkTJO Lepoff had room to maneuver and take control of the battlefield, compLexity was able to hold off Misfits, most notably when theey took Hollywood, but there werent enough of these moments against Misfits, who eschew the tank-heavy meta choice to keep things more dynamic at the cost of additional risk.ddddddddddddFnatics tank-heavy strategy got the team off to a good start, Misfits unable to push Fnatic off the point in Anubis, spearheaded by Haftór Hafficool Hákonarsoniss work with D.Va, displaying tremendous situational awareness. This strategy proved less effective in Map 2 in Nepal, with Misfits DPS use shining in the more tactically fluid control maps.The theme of tank stolidness vs. aggressive DPS continued throughout the finals, right into Map 5 in Dorado. In the initial run-through, Misfits couldnt capture the second point, failing to find an answer and move Fnatics tank-heavy lineup. And similarly, Fnatic also failed to capture the second point, where having to play a more open game on offense created a situation in which Misfits were most comfortable, Andreas Nevix Karlssons Soldier 76 feasting on targets on the high ground from which Fnatic was unable to budge him.Fnatics offensive part of the tiebreaker fell short, Misfits suddenly stopping an aggressive Fnatic push just a few meters away from the second checkpoint. The story of the second part of the tiebreaker was Fnatics attempts to keep Zebbosais Widowmaker from wreaking too much havoc, which got off to a poor start with Zebbosai hitting a killer shot on Casey buds McIlwaines Tracer in the early moments, despite a very narrow line-of-sight. 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