Here are my ratings for the England team in the one-day international series against Australia. Why don't you tell us yours?
Andrew Strauss 7 - The England skipper was a rock at the top of the order during the Ashes series and he took that form into the one-dayers. A couple of fifties at the Rose Bowl and Lord's, although he will be disappointed he didn't convert those into hundreds.
Ravi Bopara 4 - Seven opportunities to shine, and he managed a high score of only 49. Technically he's all over the place at the moment, his running between the wickets is skittish, and it is difficult to see how the selectors can continue to pick him.
Joe Denly 6 - Missed the start of the series because of a freak warm-up injury, but showed plenty of potential when he did finally get a run. His 53 at the Riverside included some very assured strokes.
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The idea of my dad or any of his cabbie mates not knowing who the best heavyweight boxer in Britain was would have been, well, it just wouldn't have happened.
When it comes to certain topics, drivers of black cabs are social barometers, canaries down the mine, except angrier. And when cabbies have stopped chirping about boxing, you know the sport must be in trouble.
So when my cabbie the other night announced that he didn't know who David Haye was, I was understandably shocked, to the extent that my cabbie felt the need to apologise. "Sorry mate, dunno who he is. Used to love a bit of boxing, but it's not on TV any more. Is it?" Haye, in case anyone doesn't know, is the best heavyweight boxer in Britain.
Floyd Mayweather is a former five-weight world champion - but not boxing's Bolt
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If you pay a hundred quid to see Jude Law in Hamlet and Jude loses his voice, an understudy will step in. If there's a leak in the roof, someone will stick a bucket underneath it. If there's a creaky stage, there's a creaky stage. The show, as those theatre types are fond of saying, must go on.
Theatre is an entertainment. On the evidence of Tuesday night at Old Trafford, international cricket considers itself otherwise. How else to explain the latest farcical episode in the sport? Twenty thousand paying customers and the highlight was a middle-aged ex-cricketer periodically poking his umbrella into a circle of mud.
Twenty thousand paying customers frustrated by a couple of circles of mud - it's worth repeating. Why those circles of mud were there, we'll come back to later.
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Hello. I have been working for the BBC for more than a decade now and cover almost all sports. It would be good to hear from you - just don't be nasty or my mum might get upset.
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