Perhaps this should have been pointed out to the England cricket team when they had the chance to make the West Indies follow on, in the 2nd test from Antigua. Hindsight is a 20:20 but enough commentators and also Fred Freeman <\/a>pointed out the error at the time. Quiet simply, they would be one all now.<\/p>\n

Whilst on the subject of being ‘wise after the event’ I would like to say that I didn’t really see a major problem with the ECB tying up with Allen Stanford<\/a>. Probably because I felt we had to have an alternative to the Indian Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Congratulations therefore to at least two cricket pundits\/journo’s. Firstly Mike Atherton <\/a>who criticised the ECB for becoming ‘Allen Stanford’s WAG’ four months ago and also Michael Holding <\/a>who pretty much said he couldn’t be trusted around the time that the contracts were being signed, whilst live on Sky.<\/p>\n

I didn’t see that one coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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