IT is somewhat ironic that, having recorded The King of Rock 'n' Roll about a singer best-known for one song, said song subsequently became the one Prefab Sprout are best-known for.

Your columnist was reminded of this on Tuesday when Test Match Special's Twitter account reminded us all it was 70 years to the day since Don Bradman was bowled for nought just two balls into his final Test innings.

Not because this is one thing Bradman is known for - indeed, it is little more than a cruel footnote to an otherwise glittering playing career.

But more for the fact that the man who took the wicket, Eric Hollies, only seems to have been remembered for this.

Those steeped in the history of Warwickshire County Cricket Club, where the leg-spinner played his entire career, will of course tell you otherwise. There is a reason he has a stand named after him at Edgbaston, after all.

Arguably one of the finest exponents of that mystical art this country has ever produced, Hollies' career statistics tell their own story; 2,323 first-class victims at an average of 20.94, 100 wickets in a season on 10 occasions and 44 wickets in 13 Tests for England.

So to simply remember him as someone who dismissed one of the all-time greats, while no bad thing in itself, does something of a disservice to Hollies.

Of course, Hollies is not the only cricketer to be remembered for one moment in time, although not all of them are necessarily ones they would want to be remembered for.

Malcolm Nash, for example, will always be associated with being hit for six sixes in an over by Gary Sobers. For his part though, Nash - a seamer who was experimenting with spin bowling at the time - shrugged it off and enjoyed a successful career with Glamorgan.

Then there is Chris Read, whose notorious dismissal in a Test match against New Zealand when he ducked after mistaking a slower ball from Chris Cairns for a bouncer overshadowed his entire 20-year career - not helped by it being included in the opening titles of They Think It's All Over for many years.

All of that pales in significance to the fortunes which befell Scott Boswell on one of the biggest stages of all - a one-day cup final at Lord's live on television.

Boswell had been the star man for Leicestershire in their 2001 C&G Trophy semi-final, but on the morning of the showpiece game against Somerset he sent down a 14-ball over which included eight wides and was removed from the attack.

That effectively ended the all-rounder's professional career and he was released at the end of the season, taking up teaching following his enforced retirement.

Even so, moments of joy can work the other way as well. Current Cumberland captain Gary Pratt may well atest to that, with his run-out of Ricky Ponting as a substitute fielder in the 2005 Ashes becoming, in the eyes of the general public, the defining moment of his career.

Like Hollies and the others though, there is more to a person and a player than a single moment in time.

CATALANS Dragons are in the Challenge Cup final, London Broncos beat Widnes Vikings and Toronto Wolfpack are off to a winning start in The Qualifers as well.

Whisper it quietly, but maybe - just maybe - after years of false starts, this expansion thing might actually be starting to take root for rugby league.

Leaving aside the debates about expanding the professional game's reach versus helping the clubs in the sport's heartlands, this should be something to celebrate.

Of course, a couple weeks of positive results for non-heartland sides do not change much and do not make the sport's concerns go away.

Nevertheless, the fact these teams are now capable of perhaps earning a place in Super League should at least bring some positivity about the future.

And with two of Saturday's three lives games on Sky Sports coming from Toulouse and Toronto, it should - for a bit, anyway - shut up those who say rugby league is just an M62 corridor game as well.

PERHAPS the most surprising thing about Fernando Alonso announcing his decision to, in his words, "move on" from Formula One at the end of the 2018 season was that he had not done so already.

The Spainiard has cut an increasingly world-weary figure in recent years, no doubt beaten down by the relentless problems at his McLaren team, whose current management continue to spend all the money in the world defiling the legacy of team founder Bruce and former boss Ron Dennis.

Yet in spite of his outbursts over the radio at the continued woeful under-performance of the car or his general sullen demeanour on Grand Prix weekends, Alonso has stuck with it up until now.

Very few competitors in any sport get to go out on top, although that does not make it any less of a shame it has to end like this for the 37-year-old, who has not even been on the podium since the 2014 Chinese Grand Prix in his final season at Ferrari.

It is all a far cry from the heady days of 2005 and 2006 when Alonso and Renault broke the long-standing dominance of Ferrari's Michael Schumacher by winning back-to-back world titles in such breathtaking style.

Despite his undoubted talent - and there are many experts who will still tell you he remains, pound-for-pound, one of the top drivers on the grid - Alonso's career never really hit those heights again.

A switch to McLaren, then still one of F1's elite teams, in 2007 saw him immediately overshadowed by some rookie upstart by the name of Lewis Hamilton - whatever happened to him, eh? - and an immediate move back to Renault the following year delivered nowhere near the previous levels of success.

Six seasons at Ferrari yielded three second-place finishes in the Drivers' Championship, although the notorious behind-the-scenes politics at the Maranello-based outfit perhaps did little to help his chances of bettering those.

And after rejoining McLaren in 2015, Alonso's significant talent has been squandered by increasingly inferior equipment, bringing a sad end to his time in F1.

But although he is leaving F1, do not expect Alonso to depart motor sport all together. He has already dabbled in sports cars, being part of Toyota's Le Mans 24 Hours-winning team this year, and IndyCar, and will likely be a huge asset in another discipline.