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Captain, my captain (but maybe not yours)

CHRIS HEWETT THINKING ALLOWED

THE case for the prosecution: Ben Stokes – you may have heard of him – would have been a liability as England rugby skipper, with Fleet Street’s sharpest headline writers dining out on his tempestuous brand of leadership. The case for the defence: Ben Stokes would have been a great England rugby skipper for precisely the same reason. That’s the thing with captaincy: one person’s toxic cocktail is another’s Dry Martini.

Colourful: Captain Lawrence Dallaglio leading the charge for England against Wales in 1999 and, in...

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