TRADITIONALISTS will be heartened by the return of the cable knit sweater to the England team, following a nineyear hiatus when players wore unsightly, bright white Climawarm tops with red trim.
A change of sponsor, from Adidas to New Balance, has driven the change, the American company presumably seeing cricket as warming and nostalgic, like the old creamycoloured sweaters.
They are not the only ones. When I was at Cambridge, Vogue wanted to do a photo shoot with the cricket team wearing our whites and sweaters, the latter with the distinctive pale blue band. Trouble was, they...