Forget the fidgeting, Trott is a class act
In the Mail Online , Nasser Hussain implores English cricket watchers to ignore the idiosyncracies and admit that Jonathan Trott is a fine batsman.
Nitin Sundar
25-Feb-2013
In the Mail Online, Nasser Hussain implores English cricket watchers to ignore the idiosyncracies and admit that Jonathan Trott is a fine batsman.
This is a man who took a hundred off the Aussies at The Brit Oval in as highly pressurised a game as he will ever play and then did much to save the first Test against South Africa at Centurion with a rearguard effort when the country of his birth were pushing for victory.
Simon Hughes, writing in the Telegraph, is disappointed by the way Bangladesh quickly resorted to a defeatist mindset on day one at Lord's, after putting England in to bat.
It can't be easy being Test match whipping boys, fronting up expecting another hiding. But they could help themselves by adopting a more positive approach. They seem fatalist in their bowling changes and field settings, almost as if they are apologising for being there. They are like awestruck footballers reluctant to put in serious challenges on more celebrated opponents for fear it would be insulting. They are over-respectful of the batsmen they come up against.
In the Guardian, Vic Marks is impressed by Eoin Morgan's ability to curb his natural instincts and adapt to the red cherry.
Morgan cut a curious figure in white as he emerged from the pavilion, so accustomed are we to seeing him in the vibrant blue and red of the one-day strip. Somehow he looked smaller and frailer. He entered sedately, taking his time, as if reminding himself that this was a different game.
Still, he did not look too nonplussed by the sight of a red ball heading in his direction or the fact that the opposition captain had stationed two or three fielders in the slip cordon. How very strange. The last time Morgan had faced a red ball was in rather more mundane circumstances. It was at Swansea on 22 August; he was lbw to Robert Croft in a match Middlesex lost.
Nitin Sundar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo