To the unfortunate club of 13 Englishmen dismissed on 99 in Test cricket, how close we came to adding an honorary guest.
Courtesy of Jude Bellingham’s late intervention, though, Gareth Southgate is on his way to Dusseldorf to raise the bat, Saturday’s quarter-final against Switzerland set to make him just the third England men’s manager, after Walter Winterbottom and Alf Ramsey, to lead a century of games from the Three Lions dugout.
