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We’ve talked about England’s ability to keep control in the field, we’ve discussed our long batting order, here’s the next reason why England will give the Aussies a good old fashioned drubbing this year: it’s Kevin Pietersen, of course. With thanks to guest writer Shaun Edwards. “Let each man think himself an act of God, His…
The dust has settled. The celebrations are over. Magical as our miracle escape against New Zealand was, a few home truths must be digested. We can still be confident about the Ashes – Australia’s humiliation against India leaves their team spirit and confidence in tatters – but things aren’t looking as good as they were…
New Zealand 443 & 35-3. England 204. This is probably the most bizarre test match I’ve ever seen. Absolutely nothing makes sense. The pitch is an absolute belter; yet scoring rates have barely reached two runs per over. At one point yesterday England were 115-5 off 65 overs; in their second innings New Zealand are…
New Zealand 443. England 50-2 I’m not sure whether to write from the head or the heart today. The head says “we’ll be ok in this match – we won’t win but we’ll secure a bore draw”. My heart, however, senses impending doom. Why? Because cricket is a funny old game and supporting England has…
England have just won a One-Day International series, which by all accounts is becoming a bit of a habit. With the exclusion of the 3-2 loss in India, England have been victorious in four of their last five ODI series’, with a 2-2 draw at home to South Africa spoiling a full house. Yet, despite…
New Zealand 269 (48.5 overs) England 270-2 (47.4 overs) It’s rarely easy to chase a total of 269 away from home – especially if your team is as inconsistent as Arsenal. However, England managed it at a canter in Napier today. In doing so, we erased our painful loss in the opening ODI, in which…
Here’s the second part of Shaun Edward’s epic Ashes preview … Two: Batting Long. Or, if you’re being less kind, batting dull. In the last victorious Ashes series, the main plan was to bat once, and bat long. It worked, England winning all three of their matches by an innings, having racked up scores of…
Seldom have the England cricket team endured such a turbulent year of cricket. Frightening frailty against spin derailed our attempts to stay world No1 in the UAE, then South Africa piled on the misery in the second instalment of the English summer. And remember, had it not been for Kevin Pietersen’s mesmeric performances in Sri…
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…
This is the side that would have beaten Steve Waugh’s Australians (maybe). If only they’d been born at a similar time so they were at the peak of their powers together. Of course, if Keith Fletcher was the coach, and they were still playing for their counties the day before a test, it wouldn’t have…
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…
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