The lads-on-tour format lets Zak play out his bravado ("we're record men!") while keeping his pathetic nature bubbling just under the surface.
The results also highlight areas for potential improvement in study tour preparation, format and capacity outcomes that provide valuable lessons for others looking to embark on similar knowledge exchange activities.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has several series of singing TV ballots under his cummerbund; Katie Hopkins has done the grand tour of the formats; Paul Daniels was a reality veteran; Jim Davidson won Celebrity Big Brother; and if by some psephological aberration Ken doesn't end up Labour foreign secretary in the Lords in 2020, you'd be mad to rule him out of the kangaroo anus diet.
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Broad speaks expansively about what England hope to gain out of this tour with its mixed formats.
The result of this collaboration is a tour de force of formats and practices that blurs the lines between real and artificial, between digital and physical.
Irina Falconi, who is returning for her second season in Boston and who reached 73rd in singles on the tour last year, said the format helped her in tournaments.
This year, with input from players, management, news media and fans, the Tour tinkered with the format, tweaking the points system to create more volatility in the field as it narrows from the 144 eligible at the Barclays (though only 136 will compete) to 120 at the Deutsche to 70 at the BMW to 30 at the finale.
England's more immediate future is one of a fine balance between preparation for Bangladesh – limited-overs coach Ashley Giles has already mentioned the concept of a Caribbean "boot-camp" – and simply winning matches again, after their miserable tour of Australia in all formats.
Some can point to the fact that India failed to win any of their 10 matches in all formats on their tour of Australia between November and January, but they have played very good cricket since then to get to this stage with seven wins from seven matches.
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