Sporting life
ILLUSTRATIONS BY CLARA NICOLL
The great Yorkshire and England opening batter, Len Hutton, when captaining England, was once asked whether he thought one should stick to a strategy. His reply, as far as Ican remember, went something like this: “You may have all the plans in the world, but as soon as you get onto the field you throw them out of the window.”
So: should you stick with your plan through thick and thin, and be accused of inflexibility and dogmatism? Or should you throw it out of the window, and be deemed fickle, unreliable and confusing? Or should you sit on the fence and do nothing, which is its own form of decision?