IT’S TIME TO SHINE LIGHT ON CRICKET’S DARK SIDE

MARTIN JOHNSON

How uplifting, I thought, as the cameras panned around the ground at Lord’s last week to see so many schoolchildren in the crowd taking a keen interest in Test cricket. Until I realised that all those cherubic faces were sitting on the England dressing room balcony, and that the old wrinkly in the floppy hat sitting next to them was not the geography master chaperoning them on a school outing, but Trevor Bayliss.
I know Joe Root just about looks old enough to get into a nightclub because David Warner once took a swing at him in one, but you wouldn’t catch Sa...

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