MARTIN JOHNSON

When the players all trooped off for lunch in Pretoria last weekend with two runs needed to win, it wasn’t difficult to predict the hoots of derision – “ridiculous”, “unbelievable”, “the game’s becoming a laughing stock” – from various commentators around the world. Michael Vaughan was one of them, banging on about common sense in his twitter column, but since when has common sense had anything to do with it? Where cricket’s concerned, lunchtime is lunchtime, and it really doesn’t matter whether a team...