In the wake of the Ashes reverse, Derek Pringle cautions that attitude and character can only take a player so far

Unfazed: Mark Stoneman has been handling the pressure but has not changed a match with his run-scoring

It is amazing how, when a team has been beaten as soundly as England have in the first three Tests against Australia, most people begin to lose sight of the fundamentals of cricket.
Suddenly, instead of analysis of whether a player possesses the skills to thrive at the highest level, all talk is of character, a trait that can be a woolly, relative and often misleading in...