Richard O'Hagan is an old friend of these pages, being the highly committed secretary of the Law Society Cricket Club.

And in gently putting us right about an error in our Moving On entry about his recent promotion (it was from salaried to equity partner, rather than non-partner to salaried, see page 8) (see [2003] Gazette, 11 September, 8), his colleagues made it clear that they promoted him - at least in part - for his own good.

'We have to point out that, in a possibly vain effort to stop him spending all of his cash on cricket gear, we have taken the shirt from his back and made him an equity partner,' a letter explained, before going on to recount how, after becoming a salaried partner, 'he kept leaving the office, so we are hoping that a stake in the business might be sufficient incentive for him to spend time here rather than on the cricket pitch'.

We doubt even that will be enough.

Perhaps they should force him to watch highlights (for want of a better word) of England's bowling this summer, at least before Sunday - that might put him off the game for life.