An unwelcome cover-up

Meanwhile, the best of the wash-up from the All Blacks latest loss

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Well, that backfired.

I was hoping to delay this long enough to have a look at the first hour of play of the first of New Zealand’s six tests on the subcontinent in the space of a couple of months.

Even acknowledging that for many, playing Afghanistan requires a holding of the nose to block out the stench of hypocrisy, I can’t help but be intri…