Two things happened on Monday. One was that men came to deliver our new washing machine. And the other was that Stan Lee, the Father of Superheroes, passed away at 95. I’m not comparing the gravity of these events, but bear with me… Our washing machine lives in the cellar. But the washing machine men …
While Ben Stokes and Mark Wood were polishing off the Australian tail at Trent Bridge on Saturday morning, I was in the cellar. There are three things to take from that. First, that in the forty-one years since I first went to a test match I’ve seen very little that was as thrillingly unexpected or …