The future's bright, the future's Broad

With the England Test squad for the Sri Lanka tour set to assemble for a training camp, among the (hopefully) sober and (presumably) well-rested players dragging their kitbags into the National Academy at Loughborough will be Stuart Broad, a young man who might just have it in him to become England's next world-class allrounder. Simon Briggs of The Telegraph, caught up with Broad and writes why it's time for England to embrace such players with good potential.

His father has argued that he might have been better off spending the next six weeks with the Academy squad, who will be honing their skills in northern India. At least that way he would be guaranteed to get a game. But Stuart has no truck with such negative ideas.