If the age of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum lived by re-engaging a sceptical public, winning big series, doing the unprecedented and elevating Test cricket above its three-an-over purgatory, then this was exactly how it had to die: the first England team in history to lose a home three-match series after being 1-0 up. The run rate on that final day? Exactly three runs an over.

Jonathan Liew's column is predictably great.

Farina, which is Italian for flour, is 600km north of Adelaide.

The town was officially abandoned in the 1980s, but for two months a year — June and July — a team of retirees descends into the underground bakery to get the fires burning and the mixers churning.

...Farina's famous underground bakery — built in 1888 and thought to be Australia's most remote subterranean one — uses traditional wood-fired ovens.

Great story at the ABC