This is again flaring up for me. Outside of the best shows/films, if I’m going to sit in front of a screen wanting to fill up time, give me falling into a Wikipedia hole over letting scripted and often pretentious and contrived material direct my mind.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of legendary batter Robin Smith. Known as 'The Judge', Smith played over 600 times for Hampshire and scored over 30,000 runs for the club in a career that spanned more than 20 years. Our thoughts are with his family and

Imagine getting the distinction of being credited as the "good looking cop" when the other two guys playing cops are just "cop" and "other cop."

Excuse me my Melburnian friend visiting me in Queensland as I look at my REFIDEX to find my way to the EKKA where I'll eat some SCALLOPS. You keen?

And Khawaja has done this while: 1) Playing during one of the lowest scoring eras in the last 100 years 2) Moving to opener late in his career to fill a team need Genuinely exceptional numbers over an 80 innings sample.

Various differences here, but it's kind of an extension/more individual version of a broader off-point thing going around the current Oz team. As much as scrutiny and tough marking has generally been a strength of Oz cricket, this isn't really it.

Peter Bellam Joey Lynch ESPN Australia & NZ Men's journeymen can be signed. Just not paid stupid money like before. Why do people think professional football is an entitlement? If the league/clubs can't afford higher salaries, then they can't. Until revenues catch up. This isn't the public service.

There are as many players in this Test match born in South Africa as there are born in New South Wales and Victoria combined.

My listening age is that I still mainly use fucking Winamp.

If England don't win one of these first two Tests despite so much being out of order for Aus (voluntarily or not, add dropping Lyon to the voluntary list) before Cummins and then Hazlewood get back...eesh.