The Surfer

Big burden for Ramprakash

Mark Butcher, Stuart Law and Rob Key are brought together in the Daily Mail to discuss a variety of points including the pressure on Mark Ramprakash to score his hundredth hundred:

Mark Butcher, Stuart Law and Rob Key are brought together in the Daily Mail to discuss a variety of points including the pressure on Mark Ramprakash to score his hundredth hundred:

People seem to think that every time the bloke walks out he's guaranteed a century. Even Ramps can't do it every time. Following him around expecting the big one is placing an undue burden on him.

In the Guardian, Dileep Premachandran looks at replica kits while, in the same paper Mike Selvey considers bats:

Bats should have some standardisation beyond simply the width. Everything else does. There is no heavy ball for bowlers. And other artificial elements that are creeping in require monitoring.