It’s like when you Get Carter, but you Get Smith instead. Simple, really.

It’s funny how the particular experience of following an away tour is coloured by whatever the score is when you go to bed and/or get up – watching a home series, you follow the ebbs and flows (mostly – sometimes work gets in the way for the odd hour or so), but for a series in (especially) Australia you get several hours’ worth of information all at once (at about 5am in my case) and then that becomes the anchor point.

This morning, I saw that Australia were 80-odd for 4, had the excitement of that, and then the rest of the morning has just been a slow chipping away of that excitement.

Any clues on how to get Smith, Aditya? It sounds like a very sensible idea to me.

69-3 isn’t tho! Get Smith and you’re going to restrict Oz closer to 200 than to 300. Or so I hope.

I wish he’d also downloaded “rotate the strike” as well, but I realise roaming data is expensive.

Yay for early Christmas.

I remember really liking Swann when he first started on TMS. He seemed relaxed, confident and gave interesting insights on the game and especially spin bowling. Now it seems like he wants to have a gimmick and is really pushing his accents and impressions. It’s not for me.