A conspiracy to zombify

"Even cows and pigs have laws governing their transportation, so why can’t England cricketers?" is Daniel Brigham's way of summing up England's crazy schedule in the lead-up to and during the World Cup, in the Wisden Cricketer.

It’s hard enough to do battle on the field, but the boards have introduced a great foe: boredom. Between them, the England players may well have downloaded the entire iTunes music library, exhausted their Dongles, thumbed Lance Armstrong’s autobiography to a dirty, messy pulp and clocked up 743,000 hours of PlayStation time.