WHAT happens when you shove the County Championship to the margins of the season, cut the number of games, put all your focus on white-ball cricket and introduce preposterous concepts such as The Hundred?
WHEN witnessing the self-indulgent pitch-side reaction of Pontus Jansson when Leeds United’s season was obliterated on a balmy Spring night in May, it was impossible not to truly feel for one of his esteemed team-mates who was well away from public view.
THERE were five Great Britain half-backs on the field when Jermaine McGillvary – the Lions’ only remaining specialist winger – found himself feeding a scrum towards the end of that embarrassing defeat against Papua New Guinea.
IN an era where inspiring slogans are everywhere, writ large on office walls and on the inside of dressing rooms, it is unlikely that the words “Less Is More” are to be seen in cricket’s corridors of power.
PERHAPS it is because I’m a bit of a weakling myself, the sort who used to hide on the touchline during games of school rugby, hoping against hope that the funny oval ball would not come my way.
COURAGEOUS and historic, a trailblazer and transcendent, the adjectives to describe the life and times of Nicola Adams are taken from the very top drawer.
