Michael Vaughan said on the radio at the weekend that the ECB should have conducted “due diligence” on Ollie Robinson before selecting him for the England team. At first, I assumed that Vaughan was talking about due diligence on Robinson’s qualities as a bowler. In fact, Vaughan was talking about something else. He thought that the governing body should have delved into Robinson’s past, stretching back who knows how long, to discover whether he had ever said anything that might violate a future inquisition. Had they done so, they would have seen that he is a wrong-un (Robinson posted controversial tweets as a teenager) and would have been spared the

Source: The Times June 08, 2021 15:56 UTC