O/ Why Graeme Hick may be the last batsman to achieve the aggregate of 40,000 runs in first-class cricket.
O/ Three bowlers in one: Merv Hughes, Malcolm Marshall and Abdul Qadir, as presented by Ian Healy - see the video clip.
O/ Monty Panesar, worthy successor to Derek Underwood?
O/ Mark at The Reverse Swing Manifesto on foul spectator behaviour and what to do about it.
O/ It would be 'too great a cultural blow to bear': the Boxing Day Test at the MCG may be under threat.
O/ Feud of the two Ians, Botham and Chappell.
O/ A reader reminds me of another country that might have protested at the elevation of Ian Terence: 'I'm amazed that Pakistan has not protested the Botham knighthood: after all, did he not propose the country as a place you would not send your mother-in-law to?'
(Thanks: RB, DC, FG, GH.)