MARTIN JOHNSON

When I read that Paul Collingwood had signed a new one year contract with Durham, I wondered what a handwriting expert might have made of the signature. “Good lord. Never seen anything quite so ugly. Looks like a doctor’s prescription. Ah, but underneath the scribble I see a solid, trustworthy, hardworking type. The sort of chap you can depend on.”
And that, pretty much, sums up dear old Colly. About as easy on the eye as a baboon’s bottom, but if you wanted someone to bat for your life, he’d be pretty near the top of the...