Re: India v England tests

It's a fair point, Hussain is quite self-deprecating about his captaincy. He describes himself as the England captain when England were crap.

Have you watched those captain's log programmes they've done on Sky?

Some very interesting stuff there.

Hussain's was particularly interesting I thought.

Gatting I can't have, because of the South Africa thing. He did try to explain that away by saying he got stitched up over the captaincy so thought "sod it" and went to South Africa. That's too big and too wrong a decision to make on the basis of "sod it" as far as I'm concerned. I was also disappointed Gatting didn't go more into the Shakoor Rana thing, he brushed over it.

Some captains oversee change and development, others just look like they are keeping the seat warm.

Atherton was also interesting on the cultural conflict with Illingworth I thought.

Away from England - Richie Richardson was very enigmatic, kept alluding to the political side of WI cricket on and off the field but then wouldn't go into detail.