He was awful.

What, you want more?

Fine.

Tiger Woods finished the 2013 US Open at +13, his worst score ever in a Major as a pro.

The quest for #15 rolls on.

There you go.

Jay Busbee | Devil Ball Golf

England's Alastair Cook hits a six past New Zealand's Daniel Vettori (Reuters)

At 14:00 on Sunday, England’s hopes of qualifying for the Champions Trophy semi-finals depended on the old enemy Australia beating Sri Lanka at the Oval the following day.

Beating them, but not so well that their net run rate would surpass England’s and allow the Aussies to sneak into second place in Group A.

The rain had been falling solidly over Cardiff, and the game between England and New Zealand was inexorably inching to the cut-off point at 4.17pm where the match would be abandoned as a no result, and the points shared.

But the rain stopped, and England were to be granted a fighter’s

The old saying goes that you are only as good as your last innings. Well, if that is the case then David Warner has not been very good for a while.

The belligerent left-hander (and we are not talking about his conduct after four beers in a Walkabout bar just yet) has scores of 9-0-0-2-0 in his last five innings.

Indeed, the opening batsman is without a half-century in his last nine innings and has seen his averages dip below 30 in both shorter formats of the game.

Amid the hysteria and hilarity following 'Wig-gate' - when Warner failed to find the middle of Joe Root's chin with his fist

Matthew Fisher made history on Sunday when the 15-year-old turned out for Yorkshire to become the youngest player to feature in a competitive county match since 1867 - and he had to reschedule a GCSE exam to do so.

At 15 years and 212 days, the young seamer's appearance at Scarborough made him county cricket's youngest post-war player and he turned in an impressive display in the Group C clash.

His mark is short of that of Charles Young, who was 15 years and 131 days old when he turned out for Hampshire against Kent in 1867 - before the County Championship was established - but it is no less

Cricket fan Chris Newell scooped a £50,000 jackpot after a cricketing feat at Trent Bridge.

To win the prize, the 50-year-old had to bowl from the full length and hit the stumps.

Then, one of the three stumps was removed and he had to hit it again.

Finally, just one stump remained and he had to strike it once more.

And all of the challenge, organised by Stowford Press, had to be done during the interval of an England one-day international in front of 16,000 cricket fans.

"I had a practice with my children in the garden on Tuesday and I couldn’t hit a barn door," admitted Chris to the Hereford

1-1-6-4-4-4-0-4-0-4-4-0-1-6-6-2 - 16 balls that transformed a distinctly average England total into a substantial and defendable one.

Three overs of Jos Buttler again proved enough to make the vital difference after a stuttering, sloppy innings was strapped to a proverbial rocket in the nick of time at the death.

England - or rather Buttler, with help from Eoin Morgan - bludgeoned 64 runs off the final three overs of the innings in a thrilling finale that effectively bailed out Alastair Cook's floundering side.

For a side obsessed with shunning the invitation to exploit the early field

--- GROUP A ---

ENGLAND

STRENGTHS: England's pace attack is ideally placed to take advantage of the new rules providing for a new ball at each end. The hosts' recent home record is also good as they endeavour to win their first global 50 overs trophy.

WEAKNESSES: The top-order batting in the absence of Kevin Pietersen is one-paced and the backup pace bowling in the series loss to New Zealand was inadequate.

ODDS: 5/1

KEY PLAYER: James Anderson at the peak of his powers, will be key to his team's prospects as a strike bowlers at the top, middle and end of the innings.

SQUAD: Alastair Cook

There's nothing that extinguishes hype like a comprehensive series defeat at home to New Zealand, so the old saying goes.

England had been tipped by many - including the trusty satchel swingers - to thrive at the upcoming Champions Trophy, to be held on home soil, and the return of Graeme Swann from injury only heightened the sense of anticipation for the latest ICC limited-overs get-together.

Former England bowling coach, Ottis Gibson, who is in charge of World Twenty20 winners West Indies, even came out and confidently backed England to win the tournament, which gets under way on June 6 in