MARTIN JOHNSON

Losing a game of cricket is never nice, but for the modern day Test captain it’s a lot more painful than it used to be. HDG Leveson-Gower, for example, was able to lose a series in South Africa in 1909-10 without having to face the kind of inquisition demanded of a different Gower in 1989, otherwise he too might have walked out of a Press conference claiming he was late for the theatre, or responded to a daft question with a Basil Fawlty-style head-butt to a trestle table.
And, as we saw in Barbados, things have now got even worse for the bloke ...