Something Mr Berry wrote in the Sunday Telegraph surprised me. In the history of English Test cricket no left arm seamer has took more than Bill Voce's 98 Test wickets. I wonder why that is when every one of the non Zim/BD Test countries has at least one 100+ wicket left arm seamer. JK Lever got off to a flier in India by swinging the ball (by fair means or otherwise - ball tampering wasn't just an issue in the 1990s) but the rest of his Test career rather fizzled out and in the 1990s we had left arm let arm seamers like Paul Taylor, Illott, Mulally, "Chubby" Brown and Mike Smith who all got a chance at Test cricket but most of them had the minor problem of not being very good. Now we have Ryan Sidebottom who has made a good start to the second part of his Test career but can he sustain it to give us an equivalent of a Chaminder Vass or a Zaheer Khan (if not someone of Wasim Akram's calibre?