MARTIN JOHNSON

It was all Mike Selvey’s fault. Faisalabad that is. It would never have happened if the Guardian’s cricket correspondent hadn’t broken the first rule of touring and announced, with the finishing post in sight, that it was “all downhill from now on, lads”.
A couple of days later, an umpire was on strike, an England captain was refusing to apologise, a Pakistani captain was running round pouring petrol on the bonfire, and the touring English cricket hacks were bashing away on oldfashioned typewriters wondering whether Shakoor Ran...