Test 4, Boxing Doze

Went for a nap in the second session today and had to talk myself out of going back for seconds in the third one. The 'G, the scale, the crowds, the occasion, the zzzzzzzzzzz. According to Jim Maxwell, Clarke had even taken to "vigorously rubbing the ball on his trousers, trying to find some excitement there", that's how bad it got. Boom tish! Thank you very much.

Jean-Paul Boycott continued with the nihilism, declaring that Cook had got out with a "nothingness" shot and generally talking a mean streak. David Warner "would get his comeuppance" and the sport of golf in general was a con. And yet, you "need positivity in everything". I can usually enjoy Geoffrey, but he was a real horrible Christmas uncle today. In the context of recent chatter, it gives me some satisfaction that Kevin Pietersen has passed him on the list of all-time run scorers for England, with roughly the same average.

People booed Kevin Pietersen when he stopped and called for a physio in the middle of an over, but what they didn't realise was that only the physio had the spider to send after the fly he'd swallowed. Boom boom. Merrrry Christmas!