I’ve got other cricketing fish to fry, so am going to park the OBO and sidle into the sunset. Here are today’s key links again. Bye!
Vic Marks has his say on the England captaincy:
This is the sort of crisis we like, one we can revel in, a sporting calamity but no more than that. Lives have not been ruined. No one has died. The options ahead, though hard to unravel, are not terrifying.
Three months ago, England’s cricket team was thrashed by a good Australian side and as a consequence the managing director and coach was sacked by the England and Wales Cricket Board’s Red Adair, Andrew Strauss, who belied his reputation for rock-solid pragmatism by sending the side off to the Caribbean without some of their best players – just to see what happened.
Now England have lost humiliatingly to West Indies, a moderate, spirited side nowhere near as good as Australia. Something must be done to hasten “the red-ball reset”. Fresh cliches may be required.
Much more here:
