ISABELLE WESTBURY
ECB BROADCASTER OF THE YEAR

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It was an announcement that snuck under the radar. Last week ESPNcricinfo, the sports news website, published its annual awards. The categories were mainly as you’d expect – best bowling, best batting across the formats, split down gender lines. However, tucked towards the bottom were a couple of generic ones, applicable to all. One is for ‘Captain of the Year’.
In a year in which the male titans of the...