MARTIN JOHNSON

By the time they get home early next month, some of England’s cricketers will have been on tour for a little over five months, and one or two emotional front door reunions may well be in the offing, such as: “Whatever it is you’re selling, not today thank you.” “But darling, I’m your husband.”
By modern standards it’s been unusually long, involving the kind of timespan more readily associated with Australia/New Zealand visits like the one in 1958-59, when Peter May was the captain. Although there are certain similarities in t...