There used to be thousands of lamplighters in London; these days there are just five left. British Gas keeps them on the payroll to work the stretch of Kensington Palace Gardens where English Heritage refused to install electric street lights. So they just about outnumber the surviving members of another of England’s dead professions, Test batsman, a job whose essential requirements seem almost entirely alien to this generation of players, who have been weaned on white-ball cricket and whose best players have spent the past two years worrying about nothing much other than winning the World Cup.
Patience and judgment seem to have as much relevance to them as a working knowledge of Betamax does.
Written by Andy Bull at Headingley
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/aug/23/england-capitulate-headingley-white-ball-indifference-world-cup under the title “England capitulate with a shrug of white-ball induced indifference | Andy Bull”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
