Everybody in the world of cricket, stop what you're doing

Bad news everybody. We're away for a week.

If all cricketing activity halts for the next seven days, hopefully no-one will come to any harm.

We know that we're like a drug and that you lot can't get enough of our leather and willow goodness, but you'll have to try and get by with the BBC website or something. Sorry.

When we come back, you can look forward to our covering the Under-19 World Cup with particular attention being paid to Bangladesh's side.

Last time around Bangladesh won the 'plate' element of the tournament, which is basically the trophy for the crap teams who got knocked out early on. This time we've got higher hopes for the lads.

With a bit of luck, Bangladesh's team will have come on in leaps and bounds and will win the tournament proper. We will then consider this to be evidence that we're right about Bangladesh and proper journalists are wrong.

Following this revelation, someone - we're not sure who - will throw holdalls stuffed with money at us.

To amuse you until we get back we've included a picture of Steve Harmison with a very big bat under a grey sky. We've never managed to think of anything funny to write about this and we're hoping the picture just speaks for itself.