The unspectacular Yorkshire bowler digging in to keep his side in the hunt for the County Championship title was a self-contained moment of pure theatre
Sexual Chocolate. Shirley Temple, Sideshow Bob. Stringfellow. Ryan Sidebottom seems to be one of those people who just attracts nicknames, the kind of man who looks like he gets clapped on the shoulder a lot, bear-hugged by acquaintances, bantered at by passing stag-dos when he appears on a crowded railway station, head bobbing above the heads, unmistakably that guy.
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