MARTIN JOHNSON
When Dom Sibley was struck on the pad by Yasir Shah in the third and final Test against Pakistan he was so far down the pitch you weren’t entirely sure whether the bowler was appealing for lbw or a blatant infringement of social distancing guidelines.
And when, of all things, it was given out, it instantly conjured up an image of a spokesman for Barnsley Hospital issuing a grave bulletin for the six o’clock news. “The patient, Mr Harold Bird, has suffered what can only be described as a major trauma, and remains under heavy sedation in a specialist ward f...
