The Cricketer presents a 12-part series of the greatest captains to play county cricket from our archive as we prepare to induct a new addition. In part three BARNEY RONAY discusses Surrey's 'transformational' captain Adam Hollioake
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Marking what would have been the Surrey and England star's 47th birthday, we recall BARNEY RONAY's examination of how far his career may have gone
11/11/2024 | Barney Ronay | Surrey Men | All Members-Only | Features | Premium | News | IPL | England |
FROM THE MAGAZINE: Barney Ronay wonders whether the technique of modern batters can handle today's fast-medium craftsmen
BARNEY RONAY: Wood is the fastest bowler in the world. Probably he's the fastest bowler England has ever produced
BARNEY RONAY: T20 can be unwatchably brutal in the current round-robin… the struggles, the lost form, the visible distress of all your favourite drained and battered cricketers
BARNEY RONAY: For 18 months Harrison has preached like a wartime chancellor about the need for everyone to do their bit
BARNEY RONAY: Flintoff no doubt would be the first to applaud Bravo for a wonderful career as both entertainer and indomitable survivor
BARNEY RONAY: You can point to a pulling up of the drawbridge, the gap between 'doing bits in the Blast' and the sealed world of England white-ball royalty
BARNEY RONAY: Tufnell in whites smoking a fag on a vibrating plate in the hotel gym while Robin Smith wets himself laughing will remain the film's defining image
BARNEY RONAY: The evangelical marketing of T20 and The Hundred has always been tied up in something else – the stupidising of sport, the absolute, wrong-headed conviction that the only way to retail this thing is to make it shorter...
BARNEY RONAY: This is a sad story. As a player Streak was a likeable and wholehearted fast bowler. Strange things have happened to him since, as they have to many members of that fine Zimbabwe team of the late 1990s and early 2000s
BARNEY RONAY: This era has been decades in the dawning, driven by the unarguable reality of population numbers and hard revenue
BARNEY RONAY: Imagine cricket with all the annoying cricket removed
BARNEY RONAY: There should be tension between the ex-pro, with his sense of cloistered influence, and the journalist with his pesky angles and awkward questions. More of this please
BARNEY RONAY: Ben Stokes doesn't, on the numbers, actually deserve a place in England's T20 team. Just writing this down is a kind of cricketing heresy
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