MARTIN JOHNSON

Special delivery, sign here please,” says the postman when you open the front door. The bloke looks vaguely familiar, and you say: “Anyone ever told you you look a bit like Joe Root?” And the reply comes back: “As it happens, I am Joe Root.”
Wind the clock back a few decades and this is not an impossible scenario.
In the days before central contracts, the IPL and the Big Bash, the majority of professional cricketers had to find themselves a winter job at the end of the season. Or else sign on for the dole if bowling all those overs had left th...