… AND THAT WAS JUST THE NUMBER OF SKIPPERS

MARTIN JOHNSON

It’s not unknown for a team to change captains in the course of a five-Test series, but if the men who skippered England during the summer of 1988 were thinking of commemorating the event with a 30th anniversary dinner this year, they’d need more than just the one taxi to get them to the restaurant.
My own memories of it began in a hotel breakfast room in Swansea, on the morning of a Benson & Hedges Cup quarter final. Across the table, the Daily Express correspondent Colin Bateman was reading a report of ...