“The new Kensington Oval has named one end after Malcolm Marshall and the other after Joel Garner, the neatest possible tribute to the fact that for a few years in the Eighties, two of the world’s best fast bowlers were opening the bowling together for a small island. Even Sir Viv didn’t make many against those two.

There seems to be an unwritten rule that one room at every ground [in England?] has to be named after David Gower. He is surely worth more - a stand at Grace Road, Leicester, perhaps, strategically placed for a square cut at one end and a pull at the other.