With the Ashes pain slowly diminishing and England’s excellent white-ball team on the charge once again, it’s time, don’t you think, that everyone stopped moping around and began reaching for the positives? So here goes: eight reasons to be excited about the future of English cricket. Strap yourselves in. We’re on course to whitewash the Aussies On Sunday’s evidence (Jos Buttler take a bow), England’s white ball revolution has lost none of its momentum. We found...
Alastair Cook, Your Country Needs You
Occasionally an article lands in my inbox at exactly the right time. And this is one of them. I’ve long thought that Alastair Cook’s form would be absolutely in the Ashes. And I think, in many ways, he needs to have a good series to safeguard his legacy as an ostensibly great batsman. Cook’s Ashes record really isn’t very good. In fact, if you take out that amazing series in 2010/11 – which came against the weakest Australian attack I can remember – then...
