MARTIN JOHNSON

One or two younger TV viewers may have had a bit of a shock when Sky put a Test match and an IPL game on adjacent channels on Bank Holiday Monday. Press the wrong button and instead of getting a proper game of cricket, you ended up with players wearing white clothing in strange fielding formations (three slips and a gully) and batsmen not only not attempting to hit every ball for six, but quite often not attempting to hit the ball at all.
Press the other button, and there were not only sixes flying out of the side of the TV set, but the commentators were in such an advance...