The greatest Spin bowler of all time has been found dead in his Thai villa, suspected heart attack. All partisan snide apart, he was a fucking legend and had half of the England team in his pocket for more than a decade. He did of course live it large, which may well in the end have been his undoing. Please God he died face down in a gaggle of giggling Thai nubiles trying to summon the ghost of Liz Hurley past.
Vale, Shane. Many a glass will be raised in your direction. We will never see y