Today Sam Tomkinson argues that bowlers should be able change the arm they ultimately deliver the ball with during their run up. Do you agree? The process of evolution is prevalent in life, and not just sport. Stand still and you are left behind. In technology, you lose the market and become obsolete. In the Serengeti, you are lunch. In sport you start to lose, and lose badly. As India found out in the T20 World Cup Semi Final, old methods become outdated and cricket moves on. Though the...
What an incredible day in Rawalpindi. For England to score 506 in just 75 overs was extraordinary. Was it the pitch, which looked flatter than the M1, or just the way that Test cricket is going now? England’s run rate was T20-esque all day, which brings us nicely onto today’s article by Sam Tomkinson. He reminisces about the day that a seemingly innocuous over by England’s new selector, Luke Wright, put England on course to win their first T20 World Cup. We’ll analyse...
Today Sam Tomkinson returns to TFT. After his piece last month about county stalwart James Hildreth, Sam looks at the career of ex-Surrey spinner Nayan Doshi who shone brightly in the early days of T20 but ultimately faded away. If you’d like to write about a county stalwart yourself – a personal favourite of just someone who had an interesting career – drop us a line to james@thefulltoss.com. Cheers. Tall in stature, miserly in approach and round arm in action, Nayan Doshi...
Today we welcome new writer Sam Tomkinson to TFT. He’ll be writing a series of articles about fan favourites, forgotten men, or other county players with an interesting history. He kicks things off with a profile of James Hildreth. Is the Somerset stalwart the best batsman never to play for England? In April 2011, I wrote an article for my university paper previewing England’s Test match summer. The team had just returned from the 2011 World Cup in India – another rollercoaster for...
