Maybe that is only fair after all the ignominy the Kings have suffered over the years, all the bad jokes, all the lottery picks that amounted to nothing.
Mohan will hope that his newspaper career now stops mirroring theirs, which both ended in ignominy – Morgan leaving the Daily Mirror over fake pictures of British troops abusing Iraqis, Coulson resigning from the News of the World over the royal phone-hacking scandal which he denied knowing about.
The ignominy that he felt in handing over authority to a foreign power – he refused to use the word "surrender" – was redeemed four months later, in the wake of a war that cost nearly 1,000 lives, when he returned to the islands in triumph as the colourful figurehead of re-established British rule.
Nabi spilled a caught and bowled chance above his head, Karim Sadiq suffered the ignominy of dropping a Kohli drive over the rope for six, and Sami Shenwari grassed the easiest of the lot after Raina had spooned to point.
Two years ago in Durban, I watched Stuart Broad suffer the greatest ignominy a bowler can feel: six sixes off an over, all struck by Yuvraj Singh, the darling of the Indian nation.
Lila crossed first time for Lenjani who blazed over from six yards but was spared lasting ignominy by an offside flag.
Fawlty Towers, by consent one of the greatest sitcoms ever, failed four times to translate into American: unsuccessfully piloted for ABC as Chateau Snavely in 1978; taken, again by ABC, to series as Amanda's in 1983 (though three of its 13 episodes were never shown); similar ignominy on CBS in 1999; ditto as Over the Top, back at ABC in 1997.
Only a penalty-shootout victory over Belgium spared England the ignominy of finishing in last place, but Lee admitted the tournament marked his "worst experience by some distance" as a coach.
It is a long way from the humiliation of the 96-13 defeat in 1998 when only a spilled ball over the line spared Wales the ignominy of conceding 100 points.
He won immortality, while his Athenian jurors were buried in ignominy".
