MARTIN JOHNSON

The late EW Swanton was never a man to underestimate his own importance, and had he been around today I feel sure that he would be pontificating on the current state of the game from the platforms he himself would have considered most appropriate. The leader column of the Daily Telegraph, and a balcony in the Vatican overlooking St Peter’s Square.
Jim, as EW was universally known, was not as firmly rooted in the past as some might think, and would have happily embraced all the good bits of Twenty20. However, he could muster a pretty disgruntled snort when confront...