When possible throughout the summer, I'll try to post three things I hope might be of interest from the day's play of England matches.
********************* 1) Meringue Platforms: Including today, the Windies have tried nine different openers in ten combinations over the last two years. That period has garnered only three century partnerships and one fifty stand and more often than not heralded further losses that have led to officially the world's best batsman, Shiv Chanderpaul, coming in to lance wounds rather than make hay. Shorn of Dwayne Bravo and Chris Gayle to the IPL
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