Lara redux?

There's a rumour going round that Brian Lara is about to join Surrey, said Steve James in The Sunday Telegraph. What a dreadful idea. "We've all had those silly post-retirement dreams, but those that try to turn them into reality usually end up embarrassed." Lara is 40. The last time he played cricket, more than two years ago, he had his arm broken by

a medium-pace bowler. In any case, Surrey should know better. Chris Lewis's comeback a couple of years ago was a disaster, as was the club's "calamitous late-season flirtation with another prima donna of an overseas player, Shoaib Akhtar".