“Indian cricketers are as famous as Bollywood film stars, and used to behave like them. When John Wright went to India’s first team practice the players got off their bus, leaving their kit behind, and sauntered over to the nets, there to sit in wicker chairs while waiters brought them tea and biscuits and porters lugged their kit around. When the Indian players held a team meeting the junior ones would walk around the room handing out snacks to the senior ones. Most of them were so pampered they were seriously short of physical fitness. About the pace they set when they did go for a run, Wright wrote, “I told them I had to rub my eyes to make sure they were moving.