'You're there to play cricket, that's your job'
Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
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It is no surprise to learn that Andy Caddick had a hand in the design of the new pavilion County Ground at Taunton; more of a surprise, perhaps, to discover that the building will be named after him. The action is well grooved and the body is just about holding up, and Andrew Longmore in the Sunday Times hopes Caddick can prove people wrong as he runs in one last time to help Somerset win that elusive County Championship.
A graph of Caddick’s career would resemble the FTSE index, a mountain range of boom and bust. His introverted character did not help and neither did his Antipodean tendency to say what he thought. Caddick came to England as an outsider, at a time when the national team was in its chop-and-change phase and young county players were expected to know their place.
Justin Langer isn't one of those players earning considerable riches in the IPL for only short periods of torture upon their creaking bodies. He’s turned down the IPL and is instead beginning the long plod on the treadmill of another season’s county cricket as skipper of Somerset. Steve James in the Telegraph finds out that Langer loves the pain.