There have been some trying times for Leicestershire in the last couple of years but this week has been a particularly tough one to take – on and off the pitch – and something has to change.
If Alastair Cook had written the script for the third Test he would have struggled to include many more positives for his England side without it simply looking like a work of fantasy.
For England pacemen life has improved immeasurably since Angus Fraser ran in, according to one observer “looking like he’d caught his braces on the sightscreen”.