Least likely to support the People's Republics were the educated middle classes, who were furious with Kiev for failing to nip the insurrection in the bud ('Three babushki with fly-swats could have done it!') and whose whispered nickname for the thugs taking over their streets was 'orcs'.

They are to be seen projecting in relief from the outcrops and shoaded on the surface.

With three runs needed from two balls, Adil Rashid was run out coming back for a second. When Wood suffered the same fate from the final ball, the match was tied.

With him the cohort bright / Of watchful cherubim.