Graeme Hick and Mark Ramprakash happy to go head-to-head again | Will Macpherson

The two former England batsmen had oddly similar playing careers but now they face each other from opposing changing roomsThere was a certain symmetry about the weird yet wonderful careers of Graeme Hick and Mark Ramprakash. Unrelenting runscorers at domestic level, they were England’s 90s nearly men, with patchy international careers that did neither’s extravagant gifts justice. Both were in and out of the side, shunted up and down the order in the bad old days before central contra