Mitchell Johnson has rediscovered his form during the Ashes 2013-14.
If ever an event was destined to be a crowd-puller it is the second Test of the hastily arranged West Indies tour of India coming in November. This grand occasion of a Test match will be made grander still by virtue of it being, if all goes well, the 200th appearance of Sachin Tendulkar.
In March 1968, Garfield Sobers, the great, captain of the West Indies cricket team, hero of every West Indian boy who dreamt of one day donning the maroon cap, and the Caribbean’s most popular personality at the time, tossed away a test match in Trinidad by making an ill-advised declaration against England.
There is something about the military that engenders pride within its members. A few months ago I met an ex-military man who, despite being a schoolteacher, a father, a hunter, and racking up quite a number of subsequent achievements, the thing he was especially proud of, the thing that defined him most, is that he was a member of the United States Marines.
