Does It Hurt When I Do This?

All this talk of sadism has got me thinking about pain and it's relationship to cricket. Either that or watching Bangladesh play NZ last night made "painfull" the word of the week.

Being one to dwell on such things you can anticipate a few pained expressions cropping up in the next week or so.

Here we see Graham Gooch testing his pain barrier while having a splinter extracted by a blind physio - or something like that.