
Bob Willis is England's fourth-highest wicket-taker in Tests. ©Getty
"I can't wait to hear what Bob Willis is going to say about this!"
It has been a popular refrain on Twitter any time England have had a bad day at the office which, over the past few years, has been quite often. In recent times, Willis, who passed away on Wednesday (December 4), was a mainstay of Sky's The Verdict, a programme which summed up the day's Test match action. And just as he had as a player, he was unafraid to steam in off his long-run when he felt England's showing wasn't up to scratch. For many, his skewering of the team became a sort of ritual on calamitous Test match days.
There was, however, far, far more to