ADAM COLLINS

You can guess the social media barbs coming if young Curtis Campher morphs into a superstar for Ireland. Playing and excelling for the Emerald Isle before so much as playing a game in his adopted cricketing home, sniffy comments will follow that he’s nothing but a passport mercenary, shipped into a country that can’t compete without imports and offcuts. Despite the fact that it is England who have been the biggest beneficiary of player movement – not least from South Africa – it remains developing nations that seem to wear this sledge most often. The ...