But we’ll miss them. The Royals brought a wonderful flavour to the IPL, they tugged at the heart. They almost forced you to want them to win. Shane Warne said at the end that he’ll be back next year but that will be another ten months without a ball emerging from that astonishing combination of shoulder, fingers and mind. At the end of the game against the Knight Riders there was an excellent shot of him walking away, alone, towards the change rooms. I don’t know why but it just struck me that this might be the last time he would have walked away from a cricket ground. I thought I saw the titles roll.