ANYONE who enjoyed watching Isabelle Westbury’s inspiring captaincy of Middlesex women a couple of seasons back will be surprised by her amiable study of the yobbish behaviour of Ben Stokes and Ben Duckett (TCP, January 19).
Westbury played in competitive, but sporting, style and her behaviour on and off-field was impeccable.
Now she suggests:
“Presumably, Stokes’ aggression, this chutzpah and willingness to fight to the death is one that we want others in the England team to gain. I want to see Stokes and Duckett batting in an England shirt again soon”...