Hang on. We've jinxed him.

Butler has just gone for 105.

England are still looking good for a mammoth total though.

They are 317-5 after 42.2 overs. Moeen joins Ben Stokes at the crease.

Do you think the Sheffield United manager needs a cuddle?

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Middlesbrough have confirmed that striker Kike has left the club and signed for Eibar.

Boro signed Enrique 'Kike' Garcia - to give him his full moniker - on a three-year deal from Real Murcia in July 2014.

Find out a little more here.

Liverpool and Serbia winger Lazar Markovic says former Reds manager Brendan Rodgers "changed" during his final season in charge at Anfield, reports Fanatik (via Liverpool Echo)., external

The 21-year-old is on loan at Turkish side Fenerbahce.

Nice tweet , externalfrom Southampton boss Ronald Koeman.

 Koeman, who both played for and managed Feyenoord, sends his old club a good luck message ahead of their Dutch Cup quarter-final against Roda tonight.

Bill Fawcett has been back in touch about his three portions of bolognese....

"Re my earlier tweet; yes there was spaghetti included."

In that case, we doff our bunnets to you, Bill.

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Scotland's Gordon Reid has been "shocked" by the reaction of well-wishers following his Australian Open wheelchair singles title victory.

Reid, 24, who contracted Transverse Myelitis - a disease affecting the spinal chord - aged 13, defeated Joachim Gerard in Melbourne.

"It's been a good couple of weeks," Reid told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme. "It was a nice feeling: it's been a great week for Scottish tennis."

You can watch the moment Reid clinched victory in Australia here.

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West Brom assistant David Kemp has urged Baggies fans to support the team after Albion were jeered and chants of 'you don't know what you're doing' during Tuesday's home draw with Swansea. 

"Fans pay their money but I don't quite understand that [booing]," said Kemp.

"In the old days, when I was a young man, fans came along to cheer their heroes, now they seem to wait for an opportunity to have a bit of a moan. You want the fans to be your 12th man. I don't think the booing helps, that's my own personal opinion."

Lee Parkinson: Yes, it is possible to do a cheeseburger in one, did it myself back in the 80's when McDonalds came to Leeds... thin bun, burger, cheese, lettuce leaf/gerkin slice easy peasy.

Big talk, Lee. Any photographic evidence?

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BBC World Service

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How do Leicester City play a 4-4-2 formation without getting outnumbered in midfield? 

The answer is surely N'Golo Kante. The fans at the King Power Stadium have been astonished by his work-rate, tireless running and ability to turn defence into attack. With more interceptions than any other player in the Premier League, the 24 year-old has become the driving force of Claudio Ranieri's team.

His £5.6m move from Caen went under the radar but, since coming on as sub when Leicester were two down against Aston Villa in September, Kante has never looked back. The Frenchman didn't score in the 3-2 comeback but his energetic performance arguably changed the game. Since then it’s been one consistent performance after another. 

Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez make the headlines but without Kante, Leicester would probably not be title contenders.

When have you confounded expectations?

Phil: I scored a hat-trick on a dusty French car park to give 'rest of the world' the lead in a 20 vs 20 footy match. Bedlam.  

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BBC World Service

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While the likes of Ramires, Fredi Guarin, Gervinho and Jackson Martinez have left Europe’s biggest leagues for China, conspicuous by their absence on football’s silk road have been European players. Only one, Serbian Nikola Petkovic, has moved to China so far in 2016.

The main reason for that, according to former China coach Alain Perrin, is geography.

“It’s the distance between China and European countries,” the 59-year-old recently told the World Football programme. “But life is nice here. I think that in the future, if the level is better, maybe we can attract younger [European] players.”

With 23 days until China’s transfer window shuts, there’s plenty of time for that to happen.

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BBC World Service

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So Atletico Madrid forward Jackson Martinez is the latest high-profile player to leave one of Europe's top leagues for China. But why the sudden rash of moves?

China’s biggest companies have realised serious riches lie in football marketing - Alibaba, the country's best known corporation, own half of reigning Asian champions Guangzhou Evergrande.

In January, the chief executive of Ali Sport, the sports marketing off-shoot of Alibaba, met with Portuguese super-agent Jorge Mendes and Jose Mourinho in Shanghai. Now, Martinez, a Mendes client, is off to Guangzhou and many expect his compatriot and Mendes stablemate Radamel Falcao to follow him eastward.

2014: Joe Kinnear resigned as Newcastle's director of football after just eight months in the role.

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Justin: Once ate a McDonald's cheeseburger in one bite.

Right, we've discussed it in the office, Justin, and concluded that it's just not possible.

Here the one about the dramatic stoppage-time equaliser, a bullet header by the goalkeeper?

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England have rattled along to 191-2 after 25 overs of the first one-day international against South Africa in Bloemfontein.

Jason Roy hit 48 off 30 balls, Alex Hales 57 off 47 and Jos Buttler - promoted to number four - has blazed his way to 44 not out off only 29.

England, who won the Test serie 2-0, play five ODIs and two Twenty20s in the limited-overs leg of the tour.

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Mixu Paatelainen. Try spelling that one correctly the first time round. The Finnish former striker turns 49 today. 

To celebrate, we've cropped a picture of an angelic Mixu in his Dundee United playing days in 1990 alongside a frankly bone-chilling shot of him managing them just last month. 

Other birthday shoutouts go to ex-England and Blackburn Rovers keeper Tim Flowers, also 49; former Sunderland keeper Mart Poom, 44; golfer Retief Goosen, 47; and Wales midfielder David Edwards, 30. 

Read more about Edwards' Euro 2016 fitness race here.

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