There have been many occasions in the past few years where English Test cricket has resembled Monty Python’s Fish-Slapping Dance.
For the purpose of this exercise, Michael Palin shall play the role of England’s Bazballing show-offs, all flourishes and crowd pleasing but with plainly exploitable limitations; and John Cleese shall play the role of New Zealand’s common-sense, no-nonsense achievers of desired outcomes.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.