In the aftermath of the BBC’s decision not to include any cricketers in the 2015 Sports Personality of the Year Award, there is no doubt that the ECB is meticulously preparing an “extroversion initiative” to ensure that this slight to cricket does not occur again. English cricketers will be fed prepared anecdotes to tell at post-play press conferences. Ian Botham will be brought into the team for thirty days as a “humour” consultant. Perhaps Jos Buttler can be coached to “accidentally” let slip some colourful sledges into the stump microphone.
But, if there is one English cricketer with the potential to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, it is that hard-hitting, fast bowling all-rounder Ben Stokes.
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