The casual cricket fan – particularly one who avoids social media – could conceivably think England’s Barmy Army remains a wholly amateur affair.
A regular run of printed T-shirts, perhaps, and an uncomfortably large WhatsApp group. A scratch brass quartet and a couple of organised types who block-book flights to the Caribbean or Cape Town. That would be about the size of it; or so the uninitiated may believe.
Cricket’s more avid followers know the reality. Since its inception nearly…