During one of the happiest stages of his life, the famous Rose period, Pablo Picasso painted circus folk. Sure, the darker stuff which followed would catapault the young Spaniard to art stardom, yet one wonders where he would rather have stayed: the anguish of civil war and Guernica, the brothel of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon or painting clowns and acrobats among the poets of Monmartre.

Shane Warne has lived through several stylistic changes in his life. Since his retirement from Test cricket he's filled his time with reality TV appearances, social media misdemeanors, and very public romances, yet can still cut through the hedonist celebrity haze with occasional moments of profound lucidity. Like when he berates our selectors for their shabby treatment of Nathan Lyon. In the side one day, and out the next, Lyon could never wear the coveted Baggy Green with certainty. After his heroics in India last week, the cap finally does fit.