MARTIN JOHNSON

I’d been having this recurring dream, in which two smartly dressed young men were sitting opposite each other on a train, and the one said to the other: “Er, excuse me, but don’t I recognise you from somewhere?” To which the other one replied: “Yes Joe. I’m Adil Rashid, the England leg-spinner.” “Ah,” said the England captain. “I thought your face looked familiar.”
Whenever the Sky cameras panned around the outfield this summer, they’ve invariably picked out Adil in his customary posting on the fine...