And many bookmakers secretly pray for, without knowing quite how to engineer, a hefty failure among ring bookies, with winning punters left unpaid and normal service resumed.
It was not long before normal service was resumed, with Troughton cracking a six and 10 fours in an unbeaten 64.
That mood lasted roughly 17 seconds before normal service was resumed.
The commission set up to investigate Wednesday's failure believes already it has a good idea of what went wrong, and so it may not be too long before normal service is resumed.
Normal service was soon resumed, though, as the hosts continued to carve through their disorganised opposition.
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And normal service was quickly resumed when Van Bronckorst again supplied the inviting cross, substitute Bergkamp this time providing the easy finish.
The five-Test veteran allowed himself the luxury of an easy single to get into triple figures, but normal service was soon resumed as the runs continued to flow.
But normal service was soon resumed, however, when on New Zealand's first set of six, Sau strolled over in the left-hand corner from close range to score the opener.
Federer opened the second set with a double-fault but normal service was quickly resumed and a thumping ace down the 'T' helped him take game one with little reason for concern.
But normal service was soon resumed as Glasgow counter-attacked from turnover ball and Thom Evans raced away down the left wing for his second try, brushing off a powder-puff tackle from Jon Davies.
While the Queen's Speech is being debated, there are no departmental question times, so normal Commons service is not resumed until next Tuesday, when George Osborne takes Treasury Questions.
Later in the summer, the jet stream moved back to its normal position and the usual rainfall service was resumed.
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