Dislike for the man? He took 229 test and 235 one-day wickets and he was an inspiration in a mostly uninspiring era for English cricket. How can you dislike the man? The one bright moment of a hugely disappointing English summer before Old Trafford was an interview I read with Goughie. Even in cold print the man radiates love for life and enthusiasm for what he does.

This obsession with developing everyone into all-rounders nowadays borders on the quite barmy. We would be winning this test match if we'd picked Lewis for his bowling rather than Mahmood for his supiposed "all-round" skills.

When you are your captain's only strike weapon and you're bowling tons of overs in a match and you've been injured scores of times as Goughie was for so long, maybe you just don't have time to do the batsmen's job for them as well.