Somewhat surprising in view of the massive public interest in the games we play and watch. But clearly the nation’s political leaders had more pressing priorities.

Sport may be low on their agenda, but it is good to know that, unlike some of their predecessors, Conservative Prime Minister (PM) Theresa May, Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn and the Liberal Democrats’ Tim Farron at least have a notion of what it is all about.

Farron is a lifelong supporter of Blackburn Rovers and still enjoys the occasional kick-about with the lads.

As for May and Corbyn - well, you might have thought they were boxing buffs so spiteful was their spat which concluded with a shock split decision and may yet result in a return bout.

Funny old game, politics.

May must be asking herself why, as an avid cricket aficionado - her hero is Geoffrey Boycott - she declared in her first innings when building a "strong and stable" lead, leaving football fan Corbyn gleefully playing a blinder up front in this game of mixed metaphors.

He might have won it had there been extra time and penalties.

May had previously revealed that she admired former England batsman Boycott "because of the way he solidly got on with what he was doing". Indeed, she had a poster of him on her bedroom wall as a schoolgirl.

Well, the PM will need to show all of her pin-up boy’s defiant straight batting as she faces some hostile bowling on an extremely sticky wicket.

"The unfortunate thing is my cricket watching has been reduced significantly, but I might try catch up with Geoffrey at some stage," she told the Daily Mirror during the election run-up.

It is said there are plans to fast track her MCC membership now that she has been put into bat again.

She happens to be the latest in a series of senior Tories who have been known to enjoy a day at cricket.

Former PM Sir John Major, whose love of cricket saw him write a history of the sport, went to the Oval to watch his beloved Surrey on the day after he lost the election to Tony Blair in 1997.

Major famously had civil servants bring him notes with updates from Test matches as he chaired Cabinet meetings in the 1990s.

May's former Cabinet colleague Ken Clarke - with whom she clashed on a number of occasions - is also a regular spectator at Trent Bridge in Nottingham.

In 2010, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer lost the key to his ministerial red box while watching a test match between England and Pakistan at the ground, which is in his Rushcliffe constituency.

It seems May has no specific plans for sport and her Cabinet reshuffle leaves Karen Bradley still in charge of Government sports policy as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport with the capable Tracey Crouch as sports minister.

However, there has been one sporting loss to her Parliamentary team. Charlotte Leslie, 38, who admirably championed boxing in the House as the first female chair of the All Parliamentary Boxing Group, has lost her Bristol North West seat to Labour.

Providing she is still ensconced at Number 10, May will need her sporting wits and allies about her when, in light of recent terrorist atrocities, she will supervise security when the International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships, the biggest global sports event since the Olympics, hit London this year.

Had he pulled of one of the most gob-smacking upsets in British political history, Corbyn says he would certainly have dipped his finger in the sporting pie.

He claims to be a fan, committed to developing a "flexible football ticket" to help fans travel to matches which are moved for television coverage with minimum disruption.

Although not in their manifesto, he said in a pre-election interview that a Labour Government would work with train operators, broadcasters and football clubs to stop fans being left with worthless train tickets and having to buy new ones when games are re-arranged at short notice.

What was in the manifesto was a commitment to ensuring five per cent of the Premier League's domestic and international television rights income is diverted to the grassroots game.

An Arsenal fan, living in the Gunners’ Islington heartland he would be, he says: "I love football. I love sport as a whole. I am not brilliantly sporty, but I love watching it and think we’ve got to nurture the grassroots of football because the lesson for children of being able to go out and play, get muddy, win, lose, draw, whatever, is such a good thing for their character and so important.

“I really admire the amateur coaches all over the country. They are people who give up a vast majority of their time, without getting anything for it, running amateur football clubs and amateur athletics clubs, because they believe in it and it is good for the kids. What we are going to do is take some money out from the Premier League clubs and put it here.

“What we don’t want is just the Premier League clubs having all the money and controlling it when it goes into grassroots.”

Well, it seems Theresa may and Corbyn will when it comes to backing sport.

Personally, with all the shock outcomes we have witnessed both in politics and sport in recent months, I fancy a small wager: Huddersfield to win the Premier League title - and Boris Johnson to be PM by Christmas.