The great cricket statistician, Bill Frindall, was proud of the fact that he was born on the first day of the longest ever test match – a game between South Africa and England in 1939 which they planned to play to a finish no matter how long it took, but which actually had to be abandoned after 10 days because the English team had to catch their ship home. As I have reported, Frindall died earlier this year. His funeral took place last Friday, which by coincidence happened to be the first day of the shortest test match every played (the 10-ball farce in Antigua). As Test Match Special producer Adam Mountford notes, Bill would have loved that.