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Sophia Smale would survive the apocalypse… probably because she'd arrive too late for it - that's what we glean from her Oval Invincibles team-mates, who ask and answer a question from each other. Meg Lanning's one meal for the rest of her life would be avocado on toast, Alice Capsey would like to take flights to avoid the M25, and Amanda-Jade Wellington reckons it would take her 24 hours to sit on every seat of The Oval.

As fate would have it, Woakes hurt his shoulder on the first day of the fifth Test at The Oval and was ruled out of the remainder of the match. And like Pant, Woakes also walked out to bat injured - with his left arm in a sling - to try and win the Test on the final morning.

After the series ended 2-2, Woakes said he and Pant had exchanged messages.

After bowling out Gus Atkinson when England were only seven runs away from a series victory, Siraj was soaking in the win with his team-mates. Fellow fast bowler Arshdeep Singh suggested a post for Siraj's followers on social media, acting out what Siraj had to say. "Say 'Pressure', pause a bit, and then say, 'What pressure?' Arshdeep told Siraj.

"Story or post," asked Siraj.

Eventually, India clinched a dramatic victory on the first hour of the fifth day, squaring the series 2-2, their support staff's emotional celebration, and the players soaking it all in with a lap around the ground.

During a drinks break on the fourth day of the final Test at The Oval, after smashing a 91-ball century against India, Brooks was topping up on his electrolytes when the commentators spotted something behind his ear.

He informed the umpires, who informed the security staff at the ground and a long discussion took place before the man in question was identified.

"There's been a lot of conversation about him and he still doesn't realise he's the problem," the commentator chuckled.

Supersport mic in hand, Rabada waylaid team-mates Marco Jansen and Wiaan Mulder when they looked like they were on their way to training and, as is often the case with team-mates, got them to play along as he tried his funny lines.

"He looks like a bit of a gangster with his bucket hat on," Rabada told Jansen, before turning his attention to the tall man's shorts. "Why're you wearing shorts when it's so cold?" Jansen said something about having thought those were longer but, as Rabada concluded, "These are the problems of being tall. Your long pants turn out to be pretty much knee height."

South Africa had made 102 and Australia were 8 for 1 in the second over at the time of Healy's dismissal.

"Meg Lanning [Australia's captain at the World Cup] dying on the physio table. She was seriously ill [with] food poisoning. [I] got out, walked in [to the dressing room]. Couldn't blow up in the change room cos Meg's in there. Got to be a bit quiet. She's very ill.