Don't ban Twitter #ECB

Kevin Pietersen and Dimitri Mascarenhas' tweets may have drawn official ire but a ban on Twitter is not the answer, writes Emma John in the Guardian.

But, leaving the ECB's legendary moral rectitude aside, a ban would be a terrible mistake on its part. Twitter is one of the best marketing tools an under-rated England team has going for them right now. Graeme Swann and James Anderson's on-off "bromance" has been a cracking storyline and frankly deserves some sort of Bafta recognition, if not a full-blown film adaptation starring Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller. They have 60,000 supporters each, which is 57,000 more than any of the counties have at their average gate. Tim Bresnan, the pair's oft-maligned stooge – the Karl Pilkington to their Gervais and Merchant – has 20,000 followers, and he's not even in the Test team.

If you aren't au fait with Steve Davies, England's newest wicketkeeper, Stephen Brenkley has some information on him in the Independent.

Davies was one of Surrey's legion of signings this season. There were those who feared that such a quiet and unassuming chap would find the move too much. Worcestershire, quiet, sleepy, rural Worcestershire seemed to fit his personality rather more than the city slickers at Surrey.

But he fitted in immediately and when nobody else could make a run at the start of the summer he carried the batting. Pressed into service briefly as Championship opener, he has averaged almost 50 in that competition and is the county's leading one-day run scorer.