The curious career of Mark Ramprakash
In the Independent , Stephen Brenkley looks back at the career of Mark Ramprakash, who is due to announce his retirement today
Perhaps he wanted to succeed too much and therein lay his failure. He was a perfectionist who was hard on himself and hard on others and more empathetic souls would have got the best out of him. Between the start and end of his international career of 11 years, England played 120 Test matches and it could be argued that he should have played in 100 of them.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo