At the Headingley Test a couple of weeks ago, with my friend Luke from Sydney, I devised a team-selection game and we played a few rounds of it - while paying full attention to the cricket, it goes without saying.
This is the game. The two participants take a given Test-playing country and they each pick a team from the Test cricketers of that country, the teams to be selected from cricketers who have played since the Second World War. As in picking up teams in playground cricket, the two selectors take turns. So suppose you and I were picking Indian teams: one of us might start by choosing Sachin Tendulkar, the other Sunil Gavaskar, or Kapil Dev or whoever - and so on till we both had an XI. We then examine the teams we've got and their prospects in the putative series which the two teams are to play against one another.
I have proposed to Alex of The Debatable Land - who, like me, is not averse to this sort of thing - that we play the game live on our blogs; and he has agreed. Watch this space: West Indies vs West Indies; Australia vs Australia; South Africa vs South Africa; England vs England.