With the Wimbledon on, England's cricketers were asked to make their choice between Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner and Spain's Carlos Alcaraz, the defending champion at SW19 and who beat Sinner in a riveting French Open final last month.

Jannik Sinner had his coaching team falling about laughing after last month's painful French Open final defeat to Carlos Alcaraz. The Italian is often understated out on court, with his exceptional tennis doing most of the talking,