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A strong plot, he asserted in his unmatched analysis of tragedy, is not the same as an interesting biography, because “infinitely various are the incidents in one man’s life,” while effective drama depends on consequential action as a unifying focus.

If there is an entertaining upside to the barrage of nerve-jangling graphs and exhaustive explainers, it’s the obsession pundits, analysts and the news media in general have with the habits of a creature they find infinitely fascinating, the American male voter.

Mehedi has since constructed a fine, if not world-beating, career, but the nine bowlers on the list before him contain some of the greatest in the history of the sport - Rangana Herath, the infinitely cunning Sri Lankan left-arm spinner who took more than 400 Test wickets; then the four leading non-English wicket-takers in Test history: Muttiah Muralitharan, Anil Kumble, Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne.

When the news broke of Ms Sturgess' death, Mr Basu recalled that it "became infinitely more serious because it was now the murder of a British citizen".

Bouchier did offer a caught-and-bowled chance to Olivia Bell in the second over, which the Scotland spinner will lament as infinitely catchable.