CHRIS HEWETT

We've heard an awful lot – far too much, frankly – about the spirit of cricket just recently, and it has had little to do with the amount of single malt a multi-coloured blazer in human form can chuck down his neck in the Long Room.
The Great Jonny Bairstow Stumping Scandal has propelled us headlong into the realm of sporting morality: two words that fit together like “love” and “divorce”, or “parliamentary” and “standards”.
Let’s move on quickly from the behaviour, rib-splittingly hilarious and deeply pathetic at one and the same time, of MCC members who spat the word “cheat...