Ged, I have no idea where he was. We spoke on the phone. All I know is the platform he was on was showing trains to Folkestone and Dover. I know this because I heard him saying to his people: “But this platform is trains to Folkestone and Dover!”

Here endeth the anecdote.

Surely the bit you didn’t put in could be a “cricketer spotted”, Sam, as long as you supply the relevant incidentals about the exact station and platform?

Benjy writes: “a cricket-loving friend of mine spotted Mark Nicholas on Platform 12 of Clapham Junction railway station [replace placeholder with actual platform number and railway station name]. He was talking fervently about cricket to a young gentleman, presumably a journalist, who was rapt with attention to Mark Nicholas’s every word and was making notes. Suddenly Mark Nicholas exclaimed, ‘hang on, we’re on the wrong platform!’, at which point both gentlemen swiftly moved on.”

Simples.

More’s the pity. We’d much prefer to read interviews comprising only moments such as that with all the usual stuff taken out.

That’s just a general observation, by the way. We will read your interview now and it will of course be marvellous.

Thanks, it was the West Indian name generator. Great times.

PS I interviewed Mark Nicholas while he was waiting for a train. Half way through he shouted out: ‘Hang on, we’re on the wrong platform!’ I didn’t put that bit in.

https://learningisfunblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/mark-nicholas-cunning-plan-to-save-cricket-from-itself/

The top two posts for comments have been Why in blazes do you read this website? and the West Indian cricketer name generator.

What constitutes ‘insane’? There are about 40 pages on this site that have had over 50 comments. We’re not going to link to or read all of them without having more to go off.

Thanks, it’s for a thing.

They’ll be going pink.

Sounds like they’ll be reverting to six Tests a summer when the next broadcasting contract is due. The shortfall will have to be made up somewhere and we’d actually prefer it if it were via the new T20 tournament than another glug of international short format fixtures.

Not that we’d prefer to watch the domestic competition. We’d just appreciate international fixtures more if there were fewer of them, and this would be a way of achieving that.

All for trying new things though.

What colour ball will they use?

We were going to stick the Dhoni trailer in this week’s Cricket Badger but then it turned out it wasn’t really all that funny so we didn’t bother.

True story.

Also, I learned of the existence of M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (IMDB rating 8.4/10).