Bopara and Shah need to do more

With the Champions Trophy and the tour of South Africa to follow, England will need to rebuild tattered reputations. However, Lawrence Booth in his blog on the Wisden Cricketer website believes England don’t have the right personnel, and the two weak links are Ravi Bopara and Owais Shah.

No one doubts Shah’s natural talent, but then no one doubted the natural talent of Mark Ramprakash and Graeme Hick. Shah’s problem now is not simply that he looks like an accident waiting to happen, but that there will be collateral damage too.

Cricket may not have mastered social networking just yet, but it doesn’t appear to be for lack of trying, says JRod in his blog on the same website.

Once upon a time when you became a fan of a cricket side on Facebook you were probably just on the site of some over-eager fanboy who treats his favourite side like a trekkie treats William Shatner’s hair. Now it is probably co-hosted by someone with the title of digital marketing consultant.