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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…
England 167 & 421-6. New Zealand 460-9. Match Drawn. Apologies for the awful headline. Watching a tailender block for almost five hours can do strange things to the brain. In the end the pitch won. It’s no coincidence that England’s hero with the bat yesterday, nighwatchman Steve Finn, managed to compile his first ever first…
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 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,…
India 316. England 216-1. Stumps. If the fairy godmother (Geoff Boycott in a pink leotard and sparkly skirt?) had visited Alastair Cook in the middle of yesterday night, and asked him how he wanted day two to unfold, he might have said something like this: ‘I’d like to polish India off without conceding more than…
India 327. England 178-2 Let’s turn things on their head for a minute. If England had won the toss on what looks like a decent pitch, got bowled out for little over 300, and India were 178-2 in reply, we’d probably fear the worst. In fact, I’d be predicting double centuries for Sehwag and Tendulkar,…
Picture the scene. Giles Clarke is in the Long Room, quaffing cheese scones and sipping sherry. He turns to John Stephenson, the MCC’s Head of Cricket – the only man in the world who is better groomed than Mark Nicholas – and utters “well old boy, now that fine chap Strauss has retired, who’s going…
‘Hmmm I must remember to pack my Lonely Planet Guide’: Nick Compton will have lots of spare time on his hands if KP goes to India Will Kevin Pietersen play in the test series against India? That’s what everyone’s talking about; that and Australia’s pathetic display in the semi finals of the T20 of course (tee hee). The logic…
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…
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