24-03-2022, 19:40
I'm perversely glad, because there's been too much dozy optimism from some corners of the sporting media about our batsmen scoring big on a couple of flat tracks. All it takes is a lost toss and half a degree of movement off the pitch, and they're a mess again. The cracks don't need papering over, they need fixing.
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