ADAM COLLINS

Despair: Melbourne Stars can only look on as their cross city rivals receive the Big Bash trophy PICTURE: Getty Images

Jana Novotna at Wimbledon, Jean van de Velde the British Open, Greg Norman at the Masters, South Africa the 1999 (or 2003) World Cup. They roll off the tongue: chokers, the lot of them. When the Melbourne Stars lost 7-19 to capitulate from the proverbial unlosable position in the Big Bash final, the tag was back. They took the gas, they lost the plot – they were chokers and that was that. No further interrogation or consideration....