Until his dismissal today Justin had been on the ground as an active particle in the test match for every single delivery. Roughly 15 straight hours of test cricket.

I heard Justin being interviewed on the radio yesterday in the lunch break. He was being asked about what it means to him to be up there as the years top run scorer in the world, and Justin answered without false modesty, quite frankly that it meant everything to him, he was very excited to be the best and he wasn’t at all ashamed of his pleasure.

Justin also writes a delightful foreword to Matty Hayden’s cookbook. Buy it for someone for christmas and read it before you wrap it up.