And another thing...

GARETH’S SELECTION IS BATTY

The fact that England have picked a 38-year old tourist confirms the first-class counties have let their country down. Gareth Batty (above) has been picked on merit to fulfil the offspinning role which is a natural consequence of Englands’s money-grabbing counties ploughing too large a proportion of the money they receive from Test cricket into overseas mercenaries who specialise in Twenty/20 slogging.

NOT SO SUPER-HEALTHY

It’s always amazed me how many elite athletes need to take so much medication so much of the time. Even British ones. I’d always assumed they must be super-healthy to achieve what they do with such precise timing.