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‘The King of Spain’ is taking over as England’s ODI and T20 coach From the moment he gave up playing professional cricket, Ashley Giles has wanted to be England’s head coach. He did everything he needed to do. He cuddled up to the right people at the ECB and was almost immediately made a national…
If we weren’t doomed before … Swanny says he expects England to ‘dominate’ India’s spinners Graeme Swann is one of our favourite cricketers. We love him to death here at TFT. But sometimes, just sometimes, he’s a bit like that embarrassing girlfriend you used to have – you know, the quirky one you really fancied…
I’m going to have to be straight with you. There are no two ways about it. In 2012, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award will not be won by a cricketer. This has hardly been a vintage summer for the public profile of our game. How different things were only a year ago,…
If, like me, you listen to sports phone-ins on the radio, you can’t avoid die hard football fans going ballistic over the latest game-deciding refereeing decision, or having a moan about their manager’s ineptitude. It’s all part of the game. The thing that really strikes me however – apart from the fact that many of…
A few months ago we explored the subject of cricket computer games, and bemoaned the general lack of authentic, engaging and realistic electronic versions of our favourite sport. Our investigator-in-chief was my colleague James Morgan, who is rather better versed than me in the world of consoles and gadgets. I had never owned such a…
After everything he’s won, now is the time for Ricky Ponting to head into the sunset Australia’s thrilling victory over South Africa in the second test gives Ricky Ponting a chance to do something he has never been good at: quitting. His 62 in the second innings rescued his team from a perilous situation, and although he couldn’t finish…
We’ve now had a few days to digest the extraordinary story of last week’s Cape Town test match, in which South Africa beat Australia by eight wickets, despite being bowled out first innings for 96, and conceding a deficit of 188. The Saffers regained the initiative by blowing away the visitors for 47 second dig,…
How much does our annihilation in the India one-day series matter? In some ways, quite a lot. Our year of hitherto unalloyed glory and excellence – the Ashes, the India test whitewash – has ended on a very sour and disappointing note. It’s not as if we were edged out 3-2. The actual scoreline –…
If you have a thick skin, and the ability to ignore countless uneducated, one eyed and quite frankly aggressive and anti-English comments, check out the comments under cricinfo.com articles. They’re flooded with Indian fans that appear to either know nothing about cricket or have a habit of consuming narcotic substances before they sit down at…
Telford – an unassuming Shropshire new-town – has been the unlikely centre of this week’s biggest sporting controversy. Its junior football league triggered a rumpus after organisers decided to publish results only as 1-0, 1-1, or 0-0, whatever the true scoreline. The intention was to spare embarrassment for their schoolboy players in the event of…
It’s a state of affairs you would scarcely have imagined a generation or two ago. England’s rugby team are in disgrace. England’s football team are in the doldrums. But England’s cricketers – flawless and heroic – are world champions. If you grew up, like I did, in the 1980s, you naturally assumed that our cricket…
October has begun, and the cricket season is over. Even the hardiest village cricketer will now have pulled stumps and hung up their whites. That’s our lot now, until April. The death of summer, and the demise of the season, go hand in hand, each a symbol of the other. As the leaves turn golden…
Three out of seven test matches every year are staged in London. Is it fair that the capital gets such a large slice of the action? To those who argue it’s not, you only have to look at the attendances to find a riposte. Whereas the likes of Cardiff or Old Trafford struggle to put…
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