You always take a chance with these selections, like maybe their heart’s elsewhere, but we do at least feel confident his heart isn’t in music. That’s pretty obvious to anyone with ears – even just eyes is probably enough if you see one of their videos.

I think that’s a good approach, KC, to give him another chance, we can’t go back to dropping somebody after one test match. He just needs to figure out what’s important right now – certainly not his music.

Yes, we’ve been having ‘robust’ discussions with the lad. We’re going to give him a chance to defend himself, but it honestly feels like he’s prioritising his GMA studies over the journalism that we asked him to do free of charge. Maybe even the filmmaking too.

Not the band though. Pretty hard to detect any effort put into that one.

Now sure, he might claim that he’s only had a fleeting glimpse of the pitch from afar, and that his involvement was all in someone’s imagination in any case, but he can’t survive in the job after this. Already I’ve seen tweets from as disparate a group as Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky, calling for his removal (actually, “purging”). And if those guys are agreeing on something, you know it’s serious.

Somerset have duly been docked 12 points.

It’s the ultimate test, you’d think. Bazball’s policy of hitting everything as if it is a straight long hop. Mystery Spin’s attribute of making straight long hops unexpectedly turn through ninety degrees. The result, so far, is a slight win for spin. 200 for five, all wickets to Abrar Ahmed.

But it’s not so much of a win that the run rate is under control. It’s still pushing six an over.

I am with Ged here. An American would never say “US number one” – he would simply say “Number one” and when quizzed whether it is US or the world, would reply with some version of “Is there a difference?”

Coming to a division 2 near you.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/black-caps/130716987/black-caps-fast-bowler-neil-wagner-signs-for-yorkshire-in-county-championship

Bold to replace an all-rounder with a bowler. We’d argue asking a batter to keep is actually uncharacteristically cautious.