Bob Cunis...

The England team are out in New Zealand, playing a couple of warm-up games before the test matches begin. I’ll enjoy drifting in and out of sleep throughout the night as the action unfolds, at a funerial pace, from, first, Tauranga, then Hamilton.

One Kiwi player I recall more for his unusual name than his cricketing prowess: Bob Cunis, who played a few tests during the 1970s. John Arlott, the doyen of cricket commentators, may have had one glass of Beaujolais too many when he described the New Zealander’s eccentric bowling style as being, "like his name, neither one thing nor the other”.

More reflections in still water: the Maltings and Oulton Broad, licensed today...