MARTIN JOHNSON

Cricket crowds aren’t what they used to be. When Len Hutton was scoring his 364 back in 1938, everyone arrived on the bus, ate their cheese and pickle sandwiches out of an old biscuit tin, and when Yorkshire’s finest went past the Don’s record 334 all the male spectators threw their flat caps and trilbies into the air. Resulting, you have to presume, in half of them arriving home wearing someone else’s hat.
If you examine the old black and white footage, no-one at the Oval on that momentous occasion appears to have been dressed as a Viking or an Arc...