Boris Johnson has refused to lift the ban on recreational cricket today.
A BBC report is here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/53276717
He has moved on from blaming the ball to arguing that its changing rooms and teas that are the issues.
I dont often agree with former England captain Michael Vaughan but his view that Johnson’s statement is ‘utter garbage’ is right.
The puzzle is what is really behind Johnson’s increasingly illogical statements on cricket. My theory, which in keeping with the whole affair appears fairly illogical is in today’s Morning Star. The detail is below:
The refusal of Boris Johnson to allow the return of grassroots cricket is a puzzle. After all Johnson is a cricketer himself, captaining in or playing in the annual Spectator v Lord Althorp game in Northamptonshire every June.However an account of the game played on June 25th 2016 just after the EU Referendum result may provide a clue. According to journalist Harry Mount, Johnson was meant to be at Dominic Cummings house in Islington sorting out his bid to be Tory leader in the light of David Cameron’s resignation. Instead he chose to play cricket and opted out of the contest. That delayed Cummings chance to wreck Britain by a full three years and possibly left him with a dislike of cricket too, the result of which we can now see.
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