Can someone at the Independent - preferably with more than a couple of years in journalism - PLEASE take Angus Fraser to one side and demonstrate how to compose an intro? And while you are at it, Simon Kelner, can you also tell him that any half decent writer should be aware that adjectives are the curse of modern sportswriting?
Here's the former England trundler on Ryan Sidebottom's Hamilton hat-trick:
"Ryan Sidebottom became the eleventh England bowler to take a Test hat-trick in a remarkable spell of bowling that produced a sensational turnaround in the first Test."
Eleventh? Hardly unique, nor even particularly remarkable.
Like many of his ilk - and cricket's press boxes are full of them - Fraser attempts to mask poor writing with useless statistics, none of which belong in an opening paragraph.
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