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As the Aussies spread out with pink numbers on their backs, Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett stride out to open the innings. On TNT, which had had an even worse series than England, Graeme Swann is at the microphone. “This is where you want someone to do an Alastair Cook,” he says. “To be 35 not out at lunch.” Good luck with that.

“Hello Tim, and happy new year,” says Andrew Benton. Happy new year to you too, and everyone. “Who could replace Brendon McCullum? I do think he should go given his stated aim was to win the Ashes, but who could take over? There seems to be a dearth of suitable candidates. But there seems not to have been much discussion in the media on it in any case. What’s your take?”

• Mali 1 Tunisia 1 (aet; Mali win 3-2 on penalties)

• North Africans fail to take the game to 10 men

There is perhaps no nation on earth whose football is as paranoid as that of Tunisia, and with so little reason. They qualified for a third successive World Cup with ease and forced a draw in a friendly against Brazil in November, yet their football is infected with fear. To watch them play is to experience a dystopian world in which imagination has been outlawed. In the end, they went out of the Cup of Nations on Saturday because their self-doubt proved even stronger than Malian self-destructiveness.

The Mali goalkeeper Djigui Diarra took the plaudits but this was a game Tunisia should never have lost. For over an hour and a half they played against 10. They took the lead in the 89th minute. Twice they led in the shootout. And somehow they still lost, undermined by their own unwillingness to take the game on. If they had only played, they would surely have won but as so often before, Tunisia did not just play. They squabbled and spoiled, feigned injury and moaned, and every so often forgot themselves, played a handful of passes and looked the decent side that they really should be.

• Teenager beats Dutchman 7-1 in one-sided final

• Littler clicks into gear after losing opening set

The winning moment seemed to drain all the strength from his body. He leaned against the drinks table and let it take all his weight, clasped his face in his hands, cried a little. As if only just feeling the shape and hue of the unspeakable thing he had just done. As if some act of great violence had just left his hands. Perhaps it had.

And before the double world champion, before the social media phenomenon, before the commercial giant, before the global icon, there was Luke Littler the darts obsessive. A kid steeped and stewed in the heritage of the game, fully aware of the landmarks he is now chasing, the tapestry of greatness into which he is now indelibly woven.

Dennis Kelly’s brilliant drama about a teacher in prison is moving, gripping and almost painfully vulnerable – plus the main character decimates everyone at a middle-class dinner party. What more could you want?

It’s hard to imagine a better route into true philosophical inquiry than time in prison. Regret, causality, the nature of freedom: these are urgent issues to the incarcerated. Time is both impossibly empty and passing at terrifying speed. You face endless days and nights with only the inside of your head for company. You are at the sharpest end of practical philosophy, whether you like it or not. What is life for? Could it be changed for the better?

Accordingly, the teaching of philosophy in prison is entirely logical. But that depends on who is doing the teaching, and why. This magnificent six-part drama is adapted by Dennis Kelly (with both sitcom romp Pulling and conspiracy epic Utopia on his CV, Kelly is a hard man to predict) from Andy West’s memoir A Life Inside. By becoming a philosophy professor, West – recast here as Dan and brought astonishingly to life by Josh Finan – was escaping his background. But only up to a point. His father, uncle and brother all did time, while he found a different destiny. That didn’t save Andy/Dan from endless, intrusive fantasies that he was doomed to follow them anyway.

Though he also discussed plans to ‘run’ Venezuela, the US president could not resist upending his moment of glory

• US attacks Venezuela – live updates

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few but what I’d really like to talk about is my disastrous predecessor and some pathetic city mayors,” is what Winston Churchill didn’t say during Britain’s war against Adolf Hitler.

On Saturday, Donald Trump fancied himself at his most Churchillian as he hailed the derring-do of US military heroes who toppled Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in an audacious overnight operation.

According to Nasa, a supermoon occurs when the moon, due to its proximity to Earth, appears up to 15% larger and 30% brighter than a regular full moon

The strike was on an underground facility in Syria which had been occupied by Isis

World No 1 Luke Littler dismantled his Dutch rival in a 7-1 victory to clinch back-to-back world titles at only 18 years old

President Donald Trump warned the US is ‘“prepared to do a second wave, a much bigger wave’ than the first attack

Under pressure prime minister to pledge to ‘use every tool’ his government to ‘make life better’ for Britons this year

This is clearly a blatant, illegal and criminal act, say law experts

Luke Humphries will defend his title as one of the automatic qualifiers for the 16-week tour, with the PDC able to name four wildcard picks off the back of the World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace

Hearty stews, creamy pastas and even a full Sunday roast

While colostrum has undeniable benefits in early life, scientific evidence on its effectiveness in adults remains limited

Once thought to be rare, hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is increasingly recognised

The 11-year-old was allegedly kidnapped by Darnell Hairston, a 60-year-old sex offender from Hastings

Josh Finan gives a delicate, sensitive performance as an academic teaching a beginner class in philosophy at a British prison

An act has been withdrawn from Saturday’s premiere episode of The Masked Singer due to "potential insensitivities" following the tragic Swiss bar fire that claimed 40 lives. T

Littler was seen swatting away the insect during the showpiece at Alexandra Palace

Veteran reporter, who previously worked at NBC and MSNBC, was originally scheduled to take the helm of the show on Monday