Field hockey to help cricket fielders
A mix of articles on offer from the England papers
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
A mix of articles on offer from the England papers. The Times looks at a machine made to help hockey goalkeepers which is being used by England to improve catching. Richard Hadlee is impressed by Stuart Broad in the
Harry Pearson in the Guardian is still taking in England’s new kit:
Like all new sports clothing the kit features a whole range of exciting technological breakthroughs including Formotion™, Climacool® and Flowmapping™. Some readers may detect a big whiff of what scientists in my own secret laboratories call Bulshitt™. I would be tempted to take that line myself, were it not for Clarke's assurances that this is not just a marketing gimmick. Since nobody in sport would tell the public a fib, we will take his word for it.
Back in the Times, Patrick Kidd takes a humorous slant on what would happen if England’s team was influenced by the government, as in Sri Lanka’s case.