MARTIN JOHNSON

No sooner have we said farewell to Paul Collingwood than Jonathan Trott calls it a day – grim news for all those hard-up county treasurers who’re in for a nasty downturn in members’ bar takings next summer. Losing them both at once may well spell the end of spectator conversations along the lines of: “Who’s in next? Oh ‘eck. Okay, let’s away for a pint then.”
Two more yeoman cricketers you’d be hard pressed to name, but neither of them would claim to have been heavy scorers in the artistic impression department. It w...