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With a cascade of PR missteps and the tournament launching in less than 100 days, authentic endorsements still seem in short supply
The opening round of the County Championship may have been played out in temperatures akin to those endured by the final crew of HMS Terror, and returned just three wins from the nine games, but over four days it threw up plenty to savour.
Glamorgan’s draw at Headingley struck a blow for those of us who are younger siblings when Billy Root brought up his hundred off the bowling older brother Joe, while Darren Stevens did so for those of us in our fifth decade when, aged 44 and 344 days, he became the oldest centurion since 1986 with 116 in the draw at Northamptonshire. Continue reading...