Alison Mitchell looks at the key brother – and sister – battles that have taken place on the cricket field in years gone by
What strange creatures brothers are!” When Jane Austen put those words into the mouth of her Mansfield Park character Mary Crawford, she was observing that, that in her experience, male siblings tended to build relationships more through actions than through words. One wonders, then, how she would have interpreted Joe Root smashing little brother Billy mercilessly for six to win the One-Day Cup match for Yorkshire against Nottinghamshire last week....