QUOTES OF THE WEEK...
Nasser Hussain, former England captain, on Eoin Morgan’s likely return as ODI skipper after missing the tour to Bangladesh on security grounds... “No one will ever convince me that it wasn’t right for the England captain to be out here (in Bangladesh) on this difficult tour. I’ve heard about leadership and what leadership he has shown. I 100 per cent agree with that, but he hasn’t shown any leadership in the last two weeks. Leadership is out here on this difficult tour. He has got enough in the bank to say you can come back in because he has driven this revolution in ODI cricket and is still a very good player, but he will know in India (for the series starting in January) when that first ball goes down that there is a captain that can replace him – because I think Jos (Buttler) has been brilliant in everything he’s done – and also there are batsmen in Duckett and Billings that can easily come in.” Andrew Flintoff, on the highs and lows of playing cricket for England... “I was a decent cricketer. I was not in the same bracket as a Botham or some of the other guys who played before me. As a player, when I was confident I’d walk out there and think I could do anything.That was fine, but when I had no confidence I’d look round and I’d just see fielders everywhere. When I was on it I was up here and when I wasn’t I was down there. I never found that middle ground that people talk about. Which meant it was never boring.” What ECB chairman Colin Graves and other members of his senior management team should have said at the start of a long conversation, overheard by a passenger, allegedly discussing a good day to bury the bad news of the Durham rescue package... “I can’t talk. I’m on a train.”