As notorious cricket tragic Jane Austen memorably wrote ahead of another season on the scorebook for Hampshire Seconds, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a right-thinking person in possession of a good set of pencils must be in want of a cricket match to score.”
Austen, pre-dating Test cricket by more than half a century, resorted to filling the time between cricket seasons by cracking out a series of smashhit platinum-selling novels, but her wisdom remains pertinent to this day, even in the age of the automated scoring app.