Nearly all the players in the England squad have columns (or blogs, or video diaries) with various media outlets. Occasionally they are worth reading, often they are not, but in his latest entry with The Guardian Sajid Mahmood was revealed he was subjected to abuse during the Brisbane Test despite not even being in the team.

It was just a shame that one member of the crowd took the verbals too far. I was carrying a drink round the boundary to Harmy when the first thing I heard was a voice from the crowd saying: "You can't be English." You're going to get stuff like that out here and you've just got to learn to ignore it.