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HOT OR NOT: Ryan Giggs showed his class... unlike former Manchester United team-mate Rio Ferdinand

At the end of an interesting week of football, boxing and cricket news, Sportsmail's IAN LADYMAN shares his temperature update and reveals who is hot and who is not.

STEVEN FINN

Twenty-six months after his last five-wicket haul, Finn’s figures of 8-79 for Middlesex were the second best of his career.

With Toby Roland-Jones set to miss this winter’s Ashes tour through injury, it would be encouraging to see Finn stake a place.

Given the state of England’s top order, we need all the help we can get with ball in hand.

Steven Finn took eight wickets for Middlesex againstu00a0Lancashire in theu00a0County Championship
Steven Finn took eight wickets for Middlesex against Lancashire in the County Championship

RYAN GIGGS

Lost in Gareth Barry’s rather low-key reflections on his time in the Premier League was mention of a text message he received in the build-up to breaking Ryan Giggs’s all-time appearance record this coming Monday night.