Test cricket is neglected enough – why not let the former England captain tune up at Yorkshire if he is not going to play in India?
For now Broad is pretty much a lone buzz generator and hype-man. The quotes, well, the quotes have been vintage, knee-pounding stuff. At the start of the week Broad announced, Warne-style, that he had invented a new delivery, a new kind of out-swinger designed specifically to derail the careers of Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne, which may or may not turn out to be the case, but is obviously just lovely stuff.
Broad has entered a kind of imperial state these days. A key turning point was that moment two summers ago where he basically killed Ed Smith’s career as a selector by being hilariouslyat the idea of being “rotated”. From there every Broad utterance has become a gift to be pored over hungrily for toxic jabs and layers of irony, and above all to be unconditionally agreed with.
Essentially, most of England’s key batsmen are at the IPL doing next to nothing. For all the spin and hopeful briefings, this is a problem. Take Joe Root, currently making a splash with the Rajasthan Royals, albeit this has so far been restricted to social media excitement over hisJoe Root has been seen enjoying his time at Rajasthan Royals, but he is yet to make his IPL debut.“Joe Root to Make Debut?” ran one hopeful headline this week before the KKR game.
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