Cramming quarts into pint pots

The entertaining Martin Johnson in the Daily Telegraph writes about the delights of Lahore:

If you were to compile a list of adjectives to describe Lahore the word romantic would not be among them, and if you spot anyone having a candlelit dinner for two, the chances are that they're not so much holding hands as sitting through a power cut.

But he also has more serious points to make about the endless and punishing schedule imposed on umpire by the ICC:

You have to say that if cricketers around the world are justifiably pointing to the ICC's determination to cram quarts into pint pots, then the umpires have even more reason to grumble at the increasingly cluttered calendar. There are only seven of them on the elite panel, and while Billy Bowden - who flew straight from Pakistan v England in Multan to Australia v West Indies in Adelaide - probably didn't have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the airport, it would be a miracle if today's Test umpires didn't occasionally succumb to battle fatigue.