My Sweet Lord's

Appropriately for a cricket ground just round the corner from Abbey Road, the Backbeat Beatles, a tribute band for the Fab Four, will be entertaining the crowd in the luncheon interval at the final one-day international against India at Lord's.

I don't know if the Beatles were/are ever big cricket fans. Paul McCartney lives in St John's Wood but it is the Rolling Stones who are more associated with watching cricket. I suppose Get Back could have been about a batsman turning down a quick single.

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[Stuart George]

I think that "Help!" might be the most appropriate Beatles song for this current England team...But there are others. "Hello Goodbye" encapsulates Matt Prior's batting this summer - and possibly his England career, too.

Perhaps Peter Moores hums "We Can Work It Out", while England cricket fans sing "Don't Let Me Down." Simon Jones has beome Lennon's "Nowhere Man", and the drunken Barmy Army at Sydney is "The Fool on the Hill".

Sir Mick is keener on cricket than Sir Paul, apparently, so how about "19th Nervous Breakdown" as England chased that elusive last wicket at Lord's? "I'm a King Bee" fits Pietersen perfectly, and since 2005 following cricket in this country has been a case of "Love in Vain." In the absence of "Satisfaction", we'd better get used to "No Expectations"...