The Surfer

England need to go straight

The England bowlers may have a fetish for banging the ball in at any given location on the pitch but what is lamentable is the absence of a Plan B, writes Derek Pringle in The Telegraph

The England bowlers may have a fetish for banging the ball in at any given location on the pitch but what is lamentable is the absence of a Plan B, writes Derek Pringle in The Telegraph. The fans might as well fix their eyes on the football.

Instead of balls having 'hurt' written into their path and trajectory, they had 'hit' instead, something Sanath Jayasuriya and Mahela Jayawardene rarely needed a second invitation to do.

Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo

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