hemisphere

Winter is therefore defined in the northern hemisphere as the three coldest months - December, January and February.

The soft centre of a southern hemisphere sandwich.

That body blow moved the All Blacks 14-6 clear and the game already looked perilously close to slipping into southern hemisphere hands.

Yet there is the perennial frustration in the northern hemisphere - for England in particular - that competitive matches, those appetite-whetting encounters featuring the world's best players, are so few and far between.

Bashir's biggest challenge will come in Australia, where men in green helmets will try to whack him out of the southern hemisphere.