Cricket has been infected with a bad decision-making virus this summer | Matthew Engel

The Bob Willis Trophy named for a man who was never really a county cricketer, and the junking of the Wisden Trophy, have done the game no favoursOne great controversy has divided the sports-watching nation this sad summer. There can be no abstentions on this. Fake crowd noise on TV? Yes or no? My answer, to my own astonishment, is yes – even after spending decades at loud sports events, in old-tech days screaming urgent newspaper copy down bad telephone lines, and wishing everyone else wo