Despite obviously never ending football it’s June and the cricket season is in full swing. Back in the day I supported the late Mike Marqusee’s Anyone But England. That changed when too slowly England did begin to diversify a little in terms of players (much less in terms of admin). Many of those players and their successors are in the white ball game now.
The red ball team does not look hugely diverse but the key is whether it’s drawing from beyond the usual public school roots of the Test team
Watching and listening to England v New Zealand at Lords though different criteria seemed to apply. I wasn’t too bothered who won. Rather I was interested in the performances of players like Bairstow and Jamieson who appear across the globe in a variety of cricketing formats.
New ways of seeing the game are being fashioned
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