Batsmen can’t wait for umpire if game is to walk tall again

Christopher Martin-Jenkins believes that a modern tendency has been responsible for demeaning the game’s fundamental spirit


At Lord’s on July 15 the Chief Cricket Correspondent of The Times delivered the seventh annual Cowdrey Lecture, from which this is an extract. The lecture was inaugurated in 2001 in memory of Lord Cowdrey of Tonbridge, a past MCC president and England captain. The previous lecturers have all been former international cricketers.