Can't win.

So in today's papers Angelo Mathews , or whoever was instructing him, got flack for engineering it so that his partner Dinesh Chandimal got to 100 before their side ran out of target runs. Do you remember how much criticism Atherton got for declaring on Hick on 98* and Thorpe got for not engineering it so that Alex Tudor got to his nightwatchman's 100 ?

Hick and Hignell collect honours

Two ex-first class cricketers received honours from the Queen yesterday - an MBE for Graeme Hick and a CBE for Alastair Hignell. I hadn't appreciated that Hick had played the most games ever and, refreshingly, he's not trying to pretend that he'd be happy if anyone broke that record!