Dirty Harry

Harry Pearson on Billy Doctrove and the state of cricket nowadays, saying what we've been trying to say: The 51-year-old could learn something from Dickie Bird. Following Sunday's controversy the Birdman voiced the opinion that the game should have carried on because people had paid money to watch it. This drew a huge cheer at Conservative HQ, where it has long been the belief that the outcome of Test matches should be determined not by the "nanny state" of the ICC but by market forces. If the customer wants to watch Kevin Pietersen score 4,000 runs then why on earth should red tape in the form of the so-called "laws of the game" prevent it by sending him back to pavilion lbw for 37? All we'd like to add here: Unmissable. http://sport.guardian.co.uk/columnists/