Not-so-splendid isolation
Writing in The Guardian , David Hopps points the finger at the joyless hangers-oners in a "bloated" England squad, in particular the security personnel who, he believes, are cramping the style of the younger, more impressionable players - in
Andrew Miller
25-Feb-2013
Writing in The Guardian, David Hopps points the finger at the joyless hangers-oners in a "bloated" England squad, in particular the security personnel who, he believes, are cramping the style of the younger, more impressionable players - in particular those like Liam Plunkett, on the fringe of the team.
The talk is of a bloated and cowed group who have toured joylessly. Nothing illustrates England's suspicious and insular approach more than the four security guards employed by the England and Wales Cricket Board to protect the players on their travels around Australia. It is a disproportionate measure which suppresses England's players mentally as much as it seeks to protect them physically, proof only of English cricket's pompous self-regard
Andrew Miller is the former UK editor of ESPNcricinfo and now editor of The Cricketer magazine