That was a very interesting discussion... not least because if Sidebottom had passed that observation on to Simon Hughes the information was also, presumably, in the hands of the England management - which does rather leave one wondering why Prior and co have decided to stick with the obscured position.

Re: his keeping in general... the TMS crew have spoken about it on a few occasions without even once sounding very authoritative. In the discussion this morning they noted a missed stumping off Panesar in both the 1st match and in this 2nd Test... but felt he'd been otherwise tidy right up until letting that edge through.

One other issue they raised earlier does not necessarily reflect solely on Prior: it's the positioning of the slips... who do take their position off the 'keeper... but who are not incapable of taking issue with him if they think (as the TMS team did) that the entire cordon was about 6' too deep given the limited carry off the pitch.

With all that said... the most revealing discussion came between Roshan (Abeysinghe?) and Vic Marks: quizzed about the decline of specialist stumpers like Knott and Evans... Marks was quite clearly lost - he did argue that selections based on ability to bat go back a long way... and dragged Keith Andrew's name up as one he thought had been highly regarded... but he evaded the challenge to talk about the likes of Russell, Piper and Guy, proclaimed complete ignorance on the subject of Gilchrist not being the best Aussie gloveman of his generation and talked of the way Rod "iron-gloves" Marsh and Alec Stewart had improved during their careers to indicate a complete lack of interest in the decline of the craft.

Roshan was fun though: clearly has VERY limited time for Dhoni, Kamran Akmal and co!