Never mind coaches or supremos – on a cricket field the captain is responsible | Matthew Engel

In Australia, sporting leadership still matters but no one above told Steve Smith he should have resigned over the ball-tampering affairThe greatest on-field scandal in the historyof cricket was the Bodyline crisis of 1932-33, when the England captain, Douglas Jardine, instructed his fast bowlers to go for something not far removed from attempted murder to halt the seemingly unstoppable march of Donald Bradman.It took place 12,000 miles away from home. There was no TV; no direct radio commentary