MARTIN JOHNSON

If you want an old-fashioned day out at the cricket, there are few better venues than the County Ground, Taunton. The architecture may be modern, but the atmosphere belongs to such a bygone era you pick up the local paper expecting to read that Mafeking has been relieved. Or even further back in the mists of time:
“Promising Debut From Young Trescothick.”
There was a brief flirtation with a flashy nickname, but while Yorkshire have dubbed themselves the Vikings (“I’ve not seen them this season, but is Thorbjorn Hebblethwaite opening the batting w...