SOME thoughts on these issues and what they may say about England cricket, as I sit in the transit lounge at Dubai airport, having witnessed every day of England’s depressing loss of the Ashes, live and in lurid detail…
How puritanical that Duckett should be dropped.
And yet, it feels all of a piece with England cricket’s (and most other parts of the English establishment’s) readiness to create a scapegoat for all their ills and failings; and then – to mix the metaphors – throw that scapegoat under the bus. And what a conservative selection ...