No not because he looks like he has swallowed 16 kG of fairy floss recently (even though he does).

It is because he snapped his 5th metacarpal yesterday to a sensational Mitchell Johnson cutter and it looks as though he won’t play any further role in the match. He even has a cast on his hand. What a pansy!

Now before you start sooking and whinging at me I speak about this injury with intimate knowledge. I too have snapped this same bone and in no way would I have let it stop me batting for my country. Smith’s bone just looked cracked and didn’t seem to be displaced at all. My baby was snapped and resulted in a bulge that still exists on my hand to this day. I also went off to hospital to get it checked out but still had the testicular fortitude to show up for my club cricket the very next day. I even took a catch from a smashed cover drive with said snapped hand. It hurt a little but hard is hard.

Open a dictionary and next to hard you will see a picture of SJ.

Next to ‘soft-boiled-egg’ you will see a picture of fairy floss resembling Graeme Smith.

You ok mate? You allright?

That said, the Atlanta Falcons lost and cost me my most awesome bet. Even worse the Indianapolis Colts lost to a team haling from some niffy joint called San Diego. San Diego? Sounds like a place where some sort of homosexual called Diego hangs out.