Strauss thinks first slip more important the second child

The Wing Commander Andrew Strauss believes in duty.

His country, not the one of his birth, but the one of his birth as a test cricketer, has given him something only a few thousand people have ever received, a test cap.

His wife, not Marcus Trescothick’s wife, has given him a child, something that practically every second man in the world has.

No contest.

Test cap comes first.

After all it’s not his first child.

So his wife will have to do the hard yards on her own for once, not like all those other lazy pregnant women whose husbands and partners do all the hard work while they lay on their back.

What is needed by the English team is child planning.

Conception should be part of the Future tours program.

You can’t have Wags giving birth whenever they feel like it, surely there is a contract that can be signed.

And about inducement, has Giles Clarke or Peter Moores looked into this.

It’s not too late to get her to pop it out now, just to make sure there are no distractions.

There are varying opinions in the cricket world on the baby debate.

Jeremy Snape wrote in his book, how to win the English and proper way, “Children are important for team bonding, if a star players wife is due to give birth, all the players should be present at the birth, and key members of the team should be trained as mid wifes for the occasion”.
An excerpt from Steve Waugh’s book I’d smack my mother for a test win is “Players wives have to be of tough stuff, and henceforth can pop out a young’un without help of a man”.
And Peter Roebuck once remarked, “The problem with kids is they have no discipline, they always do things to get you angry, so it doesn’t matter when they are born, ignore them.”
Some of those books or quotes may not be in the public domain just yet.

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