Talk:Dead rubber

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In the example given in this article, Australia won the series against the West Indies 3-0, winning the third an final test by 7 wickets http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/4480320.stm .

To say that this syndrome was likely in this series is inaccurate as the Australian team (who had lost the Ashes in the summer) were still a vastly superior team and looked to continue their dominance of the first two tests into the third and did just that.

There are better examples of this syndrome, look at English Rugby. London Wasps have finished second in the league for the past 3 seasons only to have won the final match (between the top two teams) to decide who "won" and have been beaten earlier in the season by the teams they defeated (Bath, Gloucester and Leicester).

[edit] Hyphenation?

Does the noun usually have a hyphen? My (British English, cricketing) perspective, I'd say "This is a dead rubber" (no hyphen for the noun) but "England suffered from dead-rubber syndrome" (hyphenated for the adjective). This is standard BrE as far as I'm aware. Loganberry (Talk) 14:20, 24 May 2007 (UTC)