A peculiar feeling comes over me as I read the results of the County Championship. No longer in control of my fingers, they take me to an online bookshop and hover over “add to cart”. I have never heard of the author, Lee J Ames, as close as this American artist’s name is to a great Kent wicketkeeper, but absent of agency I buy his book: Draw Draw Draw: An Introduction to the Fun of Drawing.
Even without artistic skill, it’s quite easy to draw a match. Nine second-round games, nine draws, and a monster total of 10,666 runs. Thus far in 2024, the only way to win is Essex.
In a completely normal turn of events, the leading wicket-taker in the country is
