On the Trott
In the Sydney Morning Herald , Peter Roebuck believes English cricket might as well close down its numerous academies and replace its large collection of coaches and assorted cream-lickers and start over again
Jonathon Trott is the fourth South African to appear this summer - an extraordinary statistic calculated to give coaches, educators and even pseudo-intellectuals pause for thought. Success has many fathers but the facts suggest that Trott's emergence was due in no small part to his background.
Meanwhile, Ryan Sidebottom's return shows that cricketing families can survive even the weakest systems.