All posts tagged "Ashes"
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – I’m missing fast show but Agnew and Lloyd won’t be…
There is no finer sight in cricket than a genuinely fast bowler in full cry, mixing up the 100mph inswinging toe-crushers...
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International News
/ 9 years agoHales may survive but there can be no place for Vince
Chris Stocks looks ahead to the winter double tour to Bangladesh and India and chooses his party for the arduous trip...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Remember, fifth day gave us Botham’s ‘miracle’
England’s victory in the third Test at Edgbaston was a shot in the arm for five-day Test cricket, but it was...
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International News
/ 9 years agoYes, step on it James, it may just speed up a return to spin
Derek Pringle analyses the law surrounding bowlers running onto the pitch and offers an unexpected conclusion For bowlers, especially angry, fast...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Yorkshire – C&G Trophy winners 2002
By Neil Fissler Yorkshire had endured a long 14-year wait for trophies between winning the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1987...
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International News
/ 9 years agoRoot’s aiming to be best in world by time of Ashes
Chris Stocks talks to Joe Root about his mission to succeed in next year’s Ashes series Down Under Joe Root...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Let’s admit it, we’ve never had a leggie to stand on!
It wasn’t a huge surprise when Moeen Ali came waltzing down the pitch in the second innings at Lord’s. After all,...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Squabbles, insults, threats… Oh yes, it’s Pakistan!
England and Pakistan will not be playing for anything tangible this summer, like the Ashes, but given that their cricketing history...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – This was never about scoring points!
What a thriller that was on Tuesday, and one thing is for certain – nobody on the pitch was thinking that...
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International News
/ 9 years agoBorthwick looks the likely lad but there are other options
Derek Pringle looks at the contenders for England’s number three spot, and highlights two alternatives for the selectors Every decade or...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – There is pace… And there is raw pace like Tymal Mills
There is pace that hurries batsmen and then there is real pace that threatens their well-being, and Tymal Mills possesses the...
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International News
/ 9 years agoHow Lord’s intensifies both glory and failure
Peter Hayter offers a 44-year appreciation of the magic of HQ Lord’s. There is something about the place that always makes...
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International News
/ 9 years agoEnough tinkering! Five days is the way forward for Test cricket
Chris Stocks says Test cricket should stay at five days despite Colin Graves’ hopes for change With football’s European Championship starting...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDream Team – Gary Pratt
The former Durham batsman picks the best XI he has played with and against… Jimmy Maher – retired Jimmy came over...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – Why the ICC masterplan should not spare Ashes
A cautious welcome to the ICC’s proposal to offer those nations currently excluded from the closed shop of Test cricket a...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – Finn must eye up the prey and hit the deck hard
There is another game Steven Finn appears to be playing alongside cricket at the moment – Snakes and Ladders. Finn, a...
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International News
/ 10 years agoWe Test lovers must fight to prove KP’s no Mystic Meg
Peter Hayter launches an impassioned defence of the five-day game after the latest attack from the former England captain Don’t it...
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International News
/ 10 years agoEngland lost throughout the 1990s – because rivals were the all-time greats
Emma John knew nothing but defeat as a fan of 90s England. But were Atherton’s Army really that bad? It can...
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International News
/ 10 years agoRoot is England’s man for all the occasions
Chris Stocks looks at the rise of Joe Root – England’s Player of the Year When Joe Root swept the board...
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International News
/ 10 years agoMickey Arthur – How ‘homework-gate’ made me a better coach
Tristan Lavalette talks to Mickey Arthur, who will coach his new charges Pakistan on their England tour his summer It isn’t...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMy Life in Cricket – Chris Tremlett
At school I was more of a batting all-rounder, I’d bat at three and bowl a bit of medium pace. But...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – England must be bold and have a go with spin
It might be as well to preface the following remarks with an admission that I fear what I am about to...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoDurham’s plight a cautionary tale…
Derek Pringle suggests that the county’s request to be bailed out is symptomatic of deeper problems that face the game as...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoWill curse of the kickabout mean soccer warm-up gets the boot?
Richard Edwards looks behind the injury to Fidel Edwards and wonders whether counties will soon have to rethink their match-day preparations...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Middlesex – 2002 County Championship Division Two runners up
By Neil Fissler Paul Weekes has good cause to remember Middlesex winning promotion for the first time because it was his...
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