One thing which we have safely come to expect from the English players, support staff is the amount of straight faced and totally silly, plethora of excuses they can come up with. From Pollution being the reason for loosing a test to hard cooked omelets, the kind of excuses which have come out and get accepted are simply amusing.

The latest of which has been that of Ryan Sidebottom who has yet another back strain, which may lead to him not be able to play in the next test and their bowling coach Ottis Gibson blames the hotel beds which are different in very venue to be the cause of these recurring injuries.

Surely this is the first of its kind.

In that case, Ryan Sidebottom should now carry his own bed from his home along with his kit every time he tours.

Maybe it would be simpler if they sleep on the floor.

And hearing this, there would probably be large scale research going on there in the hospitality industry to score brownie points off their competitors… Like a “Dear ECB… Stay at out hotel… we got Sidebottom’s bed and James Anderson’s shaving kit”

In the case of England, the opportunity for an excuse is limited and challenging. When this is no opportunity for the standard excuses such as “we are playing too much cricket”, what better way is it there for the coach to explain to puzzled people on the spate of consistently recurring injuries to some of their premier players.

How ridiculous!