Di another day

I'm a week late on this but found myself in conversation on Friday with Graham Morris, the esteemed cricket photographer, about the recent 10-year anniversary of Princess Diana's death. I asked Mooro whether he had been covering a game at the time and he revealed that he can still remember it well.

"I was covering an England Under-19 Test at Canterbury and some of the journos and players had stayed up late drinking after the match," Morris said. "Actually, given that the news of her death broke at about 4am we'd stayed up pretty bloody late." Realising that there wouldn't be much attention on cricket the next day, the drinking continued right on until dawn.

Those were the days. Mooro cannot remember which players were up late in the bar but looking at the scorecard, while stressing that any or all of the following may have been nowhere near a pub in their life, the likes of Chris Read, Ryan Sidebottom and Rob Key may have equally hazy memories.