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IT’S BEEN A SUMMER WE CAN SAVOUR
PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket An international season that ends the way this 2021 summer version has done cannot be described as vintage but there were enough moments...
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/ 4 years agoAN ACTION TO MAKE PURISTS SCREAM
PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket In the aftermath of defeat by India in the fourth Test at The Oval, England captain Joe Root...
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/ 4 years agoTHE MILKY BAR KID HAD ME FOOLED!
PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket An apology: along with no other newspapers or media outlets this column recently suggested that England had little...
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/ 4 years agoPONGOING IS JUST NOT TEST CRICKET
PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket The debt England cricket owes to Sir Andrew Strauss is huge. As a Test batsman the Middlesex man...
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/ 4 years agoVirat Kohli is a friend for life | Peter Hayter
Donald Trump is not renowned for his love of cricket, but the great manipulator has always known how to play a...
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/ 4 years agoNo disgusted colonels this time, only sympathy | Peter Hayter
Reaction to the news that England’s Ashes tour might be under threat from players ruling themselves out of selection if their...
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/ 4 years agoDemons choose random victims | Peter Hayter
HOW long after the news of Ben Stokes’ decision to take a break from cricket did it take for the name...
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/ 4 years agoAlex Hales is a symbol of wrong decisions | Peter Hayter
Judging solely by the look on Alex Hales’ face at the end of The Hundred match between Trent Rockets and Northern...
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/ 4 years agoHISTORIC 100 TIE WAS LIKE MINI T20
PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket THERE’S NO BLOCKING! IT’S BISH! BASH! BOSH!” Eyes fixed behind Michael Caine’s spare pair of specs from Alfie,...
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/ 4 years agoGoose made the whole world gander | Peter Hayter
Edgbaston, England, Pakistan and Sky TV all did Bob Willis proud this week, hosting, playing and presenting an absorbing match with...
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/ 4 years agoCould Ben Stokes by the root of change? | Peter Hayter
Currently level with Michael Vaughan on 26, Joe Root may be one victory away from becoming the England captain with the...
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/ 4 years agoA TRUE TALENT, BUT SO BEAUTIFULLY BONKERS
PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket For the most obvious reason the summer of 1981 will be regarded forever as one of the landmarks...
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/ 4 years agoIt was all in a day’s work for Beefy | Peter Hayter
For those who lived through the extraordinary, nation-changing cricketing events of the summer of 1981 commonly known as Botham’s Ashes, the...
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/ 4 years agoPanic is no bad thing for Joe Root | Peter Hayter
@phaytercricket Joe Root reckons that, despite his England’s side abject display against New Zealand at Edgbaston, this is not the time...
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/ 4 years agoJIMMY’S PASSION IS FIERCE AS EVER
PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket I thought Jimmy Anderson was joking but as it turned out he could not have been more serious. We...