Bitter end to tour

England’s physio was robbed at knifepoint by a gang of masked thieves, whilst “sharing drinks” with Andrew Strauss and a few other team peeps in their Sydney hotel. It sounds like an isolated incident, and that the robbers weren’t cricket fans who were annoyed Dean Conway for sorting out all England’s injured players. If anything, Dean did the Aussies a favour in getting Ashley Giles back in to shape.

* I do like the idea of the chaps “sharing drinks”. It was 4am and what that really means is that they were having a proper session. Fortunately, The Sun isn’t afraid to print that: “Batsman Strauss, 29, said: “It was in the early hours of the morning and most of the players were in the bar celebrating the win. It was a bit hairy especially because we’d had a drink or two.” And why not. (I just hope Strauss hadn’t previously phoned his wife and said he was tired and getting an early night.)