Roger Alton Roger Alton

Kevin’s choice

issue 16 June 2012

One Test series down, one to go. It’s been fun to have the West Indies here this soggy summer. They are not yet fit to lace the rum punch of their predecessors but they’ve been better than some recent vintages of Caribbean cricketer. Now we wait for the main — if truncated — event of the summer game: the three Tests against South Africa.

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