Cheers Banger

Fetch!

I know I'm late in responding to the news about Marcus Trescothick but I didn't want the moment to pass completely without making note of it.

I don't think there's a single batsman I've enjoyed watching as much as Banger over the last 20 years - his slog sweeps will remain a thing of eternal beauty in my memory, I hope.

If sport is a metaphor for life, then this is death. Metaphorically.

And that makes me appropriately sad.