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Ten steps to save English cricket

What Andrew Strauss – don’t call him ‘Straussie’ – needs to do

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

If you watched England’s three-day Test defeat by the West Indies in Barbados the other day to the bitter end you will have heard some of the England players being interviewed afterwards.

They uniformly referred to their coach, the now departed Peter Moores, as ‘Mooresie’. And therein you feel lies a few of the problems infesting English cricket.

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Roger Alton is an executive editor at the Times.

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