"Year after year, the wonderful folks at the ICC assemble the world's best players and get them to play bad cricket. If they staged WG's XI v The Don's XI at the Elysian Oval with SF Barnes bowling to Victor Trumper, they would find some way of making the occasion dismal. It's a gift, really: a form of anti-showmanship."

Matthew Engel writing in the new Wisden Cricketers' Almanack