Five wishes for the county season

In the Wisden Cricketer, Lawrence Booth lists five things he would like to see in the new county season which is about to begin.

Fingers crossed for Simon Jones. Hampshire are the latest county to take a gamble, but his career has long since lapsed into a nostalgic gaze at 2005 and the fear must be that his fragile body will break down again. Even so, a dream: Jones – whenever he makes it back on the field – holds it together for just long enough to have one more tilt at the Aussies and put the Brisbane 2002-03 nightmare behind him.