Bilal Shafayat - season verdict

At the half-way point, Bilal Shafayat had hit two hundreds. And that was it. He never hit another all season.

He ended the season averaging 31.67 and, frankly, that isn't good enough. Once again we're left with the foetid stench of failure. Someone else's failure too. Over the years we've become accustomed to our own Eau de Failure, but this kind of thing brings back memories of when the rank cloud first descended.

We actually thought that we detected a faint whiff at the weekend. We saw someone we used to work with ages ago and had to avoid them. If we hadn't avoided them, they'd have said: "I'm an ambassador for planet earth and I recently bought Sweden. What do you do now?" And we'd have had to tell them that we stayed at the same place where we worked with them, but after a bit we were asked us to leave and at the moment we weren't doing anything.

At least Bilal Shafayat scored two first-class hundreds. What have we accomplished?

In a word: Teabag (used).

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