DEREK PRINGLE

Looking at England’s squad for the Champions Trophy, the only real surprise is the lack of an obvious finisher in the mould of a Michael Bevan or Graham Thorpe. But then modern one-day cricket, with its long batting orders and enthusiastic tails, has probably dispensed with them as surely as it has done the ‘five-over trundler’.
If they have been deemed surplus to requirements it is a shame. Cricket has often been described as an art form, but not often in the white-ball form of the game. Except, that is, when a renowned finisher like Bevan has gone about ...