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Have you heard the news? According to the Daily Telegraph the BCCI has banned 30 English players from playing and practising in India following India’s humbling in the recent test series. At this point you probably think I’m joking. Surely a supposedly professional organisation, containing grown men, wouldn’t be so petty and, quite frankly, absurd?…
India 226. England 227-3 (47.2 overs) It’s amazing how a decisive victory in a dead rubber can lift our spirits. When you see the England cricket team play like they did yesterday, with so many first choice players missing, everything seems right with the world. Alternatively, you’ be forgiven for thinking: “why the hell didn’t…
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England 257-7. India 258-5 (47.3 overs) If you include warm-up matches, England’s record under Ashley Giles currently reads as won one, lost five. That’s pretty dismal by anyone standards – especially for a side that includes world class players like Cook, Pietersen and Morgan. So should we be despondent? Should we simply shrug our shoulders…
England 155 (43 overs). India 157-3 (28 overs) The great thing about being a professional cricket journalist is that you get to watch England play cricket. The one great disadvantage is that you have to watch every match. You can’t just say ‘sod this I’m off to the pub’; you have to stay rooted to…
India 285-6 (50 overs) England 158 (36 overs) Don’t worry. I’ll give the wheelie headlines a rest after this. But let’s face it. England’s performance in the second ODI was really, really bad. But let’s not get too downhearted. Nobody wheelie (sorry) expected us to win this series, so the odd bad day at the…
England 325-4 (50 overs) India 316-9 Well, well, well. Ashley Giles has already achieved something Andy Flower could not: an ODI win in the world champions’ back yard. Ian Bell was right. The warm up matches really were meaningless. England’s success was built on the one really strong aspect of our side: the top order…
This aint like dustin’ crops boy. It hasn’t been the most auspicious start for Ashley Giles. England were thrashed in the first warm up game and beaten soundly by Delhi in the second. Thank heavens we weren’t playing Jaipur and Mumbai too, otherwise things might have got really ugly. It’s all the more embarrassing because…
We received this very very serious submission via email earlier in the week. It discusses India’s test humiliation at the hand’s of Alastair Cook’s Barmy Army with intelligence, eloquence (and not a trace of sarcasm). It also prevents us from having to consider England’s abject showing in the T20 yesterday … something which will come…
Hurrah and huzzah. The fairytale ending came true. And in the end, we didn’t need to worry, not even remotely. All our fears and fretful paranoia proved baseless. We coasted home, serenely and supremely, cruising our way over the final frontier and in to the history books. Uplifting though our success has been, I for…
England 330. India 326-9 dec. England 161-3 Well you didn’t think we were going to breeze it, did you? Much as we’d have loved Kevin Pietersen to score a run a ball hundred and take the game away from India completely, it was never going to happen on this abysmal pitch. All things considered 161-3…
This is all my fault. Last night I committed the cardinal sin for an English cricket supporter: I thought the game was already won. Celebrating far too soon, I was convinced, without a doubt in my mind, that India would capitulate today, with barely a murmur. I reasoned that the hosts were done for, both…
England 330. India 87-4. Stumps. Yesterday’s talking point was whether England’s score of 199-5 was any good. Even the experts on Sky and TMS were divided. Nasser Hussain thought it was ok, but gave India the advantage because he expected their batsmen to bat better on the slow surface; Sir Ian, on the other hand,…
Stumps: England 199-5 As Arkwright used to remark at the close of every episode of Open All Hours - it’s been a funny old day. Either by accident or design, India have stumbled upon the perfect pitch for their endeavour to square the series. When they prepared a rank turner at Mumbai, the fiendish plan backfired because…
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