Prolific batsmans failure to convert county dominance into Test runs will not affect his new role as Englands batting coach
Ramprakash set to be named permanent batting coach
When, for the next year anyway, Mark Ramprakash signs up as the England batting coach across all formats, as seems likely to happen in the very near future, the team will be gaining the wisdom of 25 years in the game. They will learn from someone who has experienced the highs and, more pertinently, the lows of international cricket; but who was, along with Graeme Hick, the most prolific county batsman of his generation and, indisputably, the best technician.
There will be the knowledge gained from scoring almost 36,000 runs in first-class cricket, including 114 centuries (which given the nature of cricket these days will almost certainly make him the last to achieve a hundred first-class hundreds) and the acknowledgement that only two of these came in the 52 Tests he played. When it comes to cricket, few can identify with Kiplings twin impostors quite as readily as Ramprakash.
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