Thirty four minutes into an absorbing contest between Gloucester and Northampton earlier this season, the ball was passed to Danny Cipriani a yard or so inside the opposition 22. The Northampton defence was configured in an almost perfect line. In the blink of an eye, Cipriani floated the ball, head still forward, 25 yards to his right. For a fraction of a second, it seemed like a monstrous mistake, the ball going nowhere in particular. Northampton’s defence had been cut open not by brute force or muscularity, but by a detonation…

Source: The Times May 14, 2019 11:11 UTC