Sporting pictures of the week :- 4 December

Barry Richards holding the bat with which he scored 325* at Adelaide in a day in 1970 against a West Australia side that included Dennis Lillee and Graham McKenzie.  In contrast the giant club that David Warner wields.  If ever there was an illustration of how the game favours the batsmen in 2015.

Clown.

Mitchell Santner had a pretty good debut on the whole.  Then there was this.

The public farewell to Jonah Lomu.

Portuguese surfer Alex Botelho in action.  This section needs more surfing photos.

One stat that passed with surprisingly little comment this week was that Britain has now won the Davis Cup 10 times.  In 79 years they may win it for an eleventh time.

It’s always easy to know when Galatasaray are playing.

The FFA is an increasing shambles.  When fans of your sport are doing this after 30 minutes of a match you probably have bigger issues than trying to ditch the Wellington Phoenix.

Finally, with the arrest of another tranche of FIFA officials, it is timely to remind ourselves of the conditions of the migrant workers in Qatar.