MARTIN JOHNSON

I’d been having this recurring dream, in which two smartly dressed young men were sitting opposite each other on a train, and the one said to the other: “Er, excuse me, but don’t I recognise you from somewhere?” To which the other one replied: “Yes Joe. I’m Adil Rashid, the England leg-spinner.” “Ah,” said the England captain. “I thought your face looked familiar.”
Whenever the Sky cameras panned around the outfield this summer, they’ve invariably picked out Adil in his customary ...