Names and numbers on players’ backs in Test cricket? What a great idea! But if you’ll indulge me for a moment, I think I have an ever better idea, which is: what if we never ever ever for all eternity do this, sack every ICC employee responsible for coming up with the proposal, and blackball anyone who ever makes the suggestion again? I know things must get boring in Dubai, sitting around in air-conditioned offices feeling guilty about getting paid so much to do so little, but that doesn’t mean the ICC should be allowed to assuage their guilt by inflicting on the cricketing world whatever moronic gibberish popped into their head last night in the bath. No. Just no. Firstly, we know from experience in first-class cricket that names and numbers on whites look hideous. Secondly, in an age when one of the great turn-offs for sports fans is crass commercialism, this would be as crass as it comes. Thirdly, and let me say this loudly for those in the cheap seats (just … [Read more...] about Take a number, and shove it