ALL GREAT DOUBLE ACTS HAD A MEAN STREAK!

MARTIN JOHNSON

English cricket has a long association with celebrated double acts – Hobbs and Sutcliffe, Boycott and Edrich, Duckworth and Lewis – and as England’s longest winter abroad for 50 odd years draws to a close, you find yourself wondering whether, in years to come, people will refer to Anderson and Broad with quite the same reverence.
For the past decade or so these two great chums (Broad was best man at Anderson’s wedding) have been sharing England’s new ball, during which time they’ve been involved in four winning Ashe...

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