MARTIN JOHNSON

Ben Stokes’ match-winning half century in Tauranga came (at best) a distant third behind Brexit and the cold snap on the list of this week’s animated pub conversations, meaning that the England all-rounder couldn’t be in a better place if he wants to keep his comeback relatively low-key.
To put it bluntly, of all Lord Lucan’s methods of avoiding detection over the past 40 odd years, it wouldn’t come as a huge surprise to find out that one of his better disguises was as a middle-order batsman in New Zealand.
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