All posts tagged "Ashes"
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International News
/ 9 years agoCook has much more to offer his young charges
Alison Mitchell believes Alastair Cook, despite hinting at standing down as skipper, is the right man to take England forward Alastair...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Rousing speeches work but so does laughter
Chandika Hathurusingha is not given to tub thumping but his words to Bangladesh’s cricketers, as they stood poised between victory and...
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International News
/ 9 years agoWe always wanted to take cricket back home, says Najam Sethi
By Tahir Ibn Manzoor The Pakistan Cricket Board, especially former chairman Naseem Ashraf, must take credit for floating the idea of...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Aussies on the ball in bid to end Ashes failures
Australia’s government has declared it will not do business with the UK until it has left the European Union but one...
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International News
/ 10 years agoIt was a battle that Tres simply could never win
Ten years on, Peter Hayter looks at the brave call by Marcus Trescothick to face his demons and leave the international...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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
/ 10 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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