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England 269-6 (50 overs). Australia 221-9 (50 overs) Boxing isn’t everyone’s cup of Twinings, but the blogosphere would be a much poorer place without boxing analogies. Saturday’s ODI at Edgbaston was round one of the forthcoming heavyweight contest between England and Australia. England didn’t quite secure a knockout blow – they’re far too cautious for…
The irrelevance that was the England versus New Zealand test series has mercifully finished. Now the ICC Champions Trophy is upon us – another sideshow that sits uneasily in the interregnum before the Ashes: the 10 act drama that shall fashion greatness or infamy, where every reputation is wagered and nothing held back. England’s victory…
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…
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…
England 413 and 58 for 0 beat India 327 and 142 by a country mile Ok, so ‘miracle’ might be too strong a word, but be honest. How many England supporters really thought we’d have a rat’s posterior’s chance of winning this match – especially when we lost the toss on Friday morning? Test matches…
Go get ‘em Wrighty England 196-5 (20 overs) Afghanistan 80 (17.2 overs) England were always going to beat Afghanistan. Never once did it cross our minds that we might actually lose. Not even when the third best batsman wicket-keeper in the side, Craig Kieswetter, played out a maiden and then got bowled – leaving us 0-1…
“Five more pies please” – is it just us, or has Shane Watson put on six stone? It’s obviously still early days in the ODI series against the Canary Yellows, but we’ve seen enough to make some sweeping and probably inaccurate generalisations. So here goes … First of all, it appears that we’ve still got the…
Ten years ago the ICC awards evenings were depressing occasions for England fans. They usually involved gritting one’s teeth as Ricky Ponting, Glenn McGrath, or somebody equally offensive (and Australian) took to the stage and gave a cringe worthy speech about how they couldn’t have done it without Haydo, Gilly, and Dizzy. Yuk. Thankfully these days the boot is on…
There are no quick fixes in international cricket; or so the saying goes. In England’s case, the selectors have taken this cliché quite literally. As soon as Alastair Cook was made our ODI skipper, in what can only be described as a desperate move to give him some experience before he becomes test skipper, the…
An ‘interesting’ comparison One of the above is a sporting hero loved by the nation despite his penchant for the dull and predictable. The other is Jonathan Trott. It doesn’t seem fair really. Trott is statistically the best batsman we’ve had since, I don’t know, WG Grace? However, whereas the bearded wonder from yesteryear famously…
In what was surely the only relevant and meaningful game of the protracted CB series thus far England beat the Parrott Greens by 21 runs in Adelaide today. It was a much better performance all round – hell, it couldn’t have been any worse than the last three. Jonathan Trott was the hero with a…
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