By Paul Eddison

England regular: Phil DeFreitas

THE County Championship is an easy target following England’s Ashes defeat but Phil DeFreitas believes it is the quality of the wickets in England which is the bigger issue.
Despite Alastair Cook’s heroics in Melbourne, the domestic game in England has come in for plenty of criticism in the aftermath of the series loss but for DeFreitas, who took more than 250 wickets for England between 1986 and 1996, the bigger issue is the standard of pitches over here.
And if England are to start producing quicker bowlers, and more important...