Getting up at 4am the night after the Christmas party probably isn’t the most fun thing we’ve ever done.
Woe betide anyone who suggests we’re phoning it in this week.
We all dream of a scoring rate in excess of two runs an over.
The next round of Big Bash matches sees the Aussie Diggers take on the Sri Lankan Smashers. Get your chicken based fast food franchise of choice on the phone, cause it’s gonna be massive.
With England being brilliant and wonderful and having no problems at all now Stuart Broad is definitely too injured to sneak his way back in, the fourth Test preview focuses almost entirely on their opponents.
Despite a slight wobble, England completed the formality of victory easily enough on the fifth morning to stand on the brink of a historic series victory.
An Indian collapse after lunch took them to the brink of defeat before R Ashwin showed up the folly of his team-mates, succeeding in taking the game to a fifth day and winning a tiny moral victory.
England sleepwalked their way to a big first innings lead despite their batsmen intermittently running themselves out for no apparent reason.
Alastair Cook takes off his shoes, removes his silk briefs and sinks into a deep bath.
In the space of little over a fortnight, England seem to have remembered how to play cricket and followed up their bottom-smacking of India in Mumbai with a strong start in Kolkata.