All posts tagged "Test cricket"
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England News
/ 1 year agoJoe’s route to the summit opens up
That’s the thing about Joe Root, you barely notice him, and then you look up at the scoreboard to see he’s...
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England News
/ 1 year agoEngland’s Harry Brook and Shoaib Bashir show their class
England’s win at Trent Bridge featured some of the best Test cricket I’ve seen for a long time. West Indies did...
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England News
/ 1 year agoGreat survivor Jason Holder keeps holding on vs England
At 115-5 on day one of the Edgbaston Test, having won the toss and elected to bat first on a placid...
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Derek Pringle
/ 1 year agoHarry Brook has the right stuff to lead for England
There would have been sniggers as well as knowing nods over Harry Brook’s credentials to be an England captain when the...
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England News
/ 1 year agoAdvantage England
By Matt Thacker After the embarrassment of the Lord’s Test, not many had a West Indies first-innings lead on their Trent...
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Mark Butcher
/ 1 year agoUndercooked West Indies need support from ‘Big three’
MARK BUTCHER It was evident from the Lord’s Test that West Indies are massively undercooked for this series. If it hadn’t...
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International News
/ 1 year agoDominica’s favourite sons make a play for the future
By Phil Walker Kavem Hodge sat in the press room after the finest day of his career laughing at his own...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoEngland analysis and comment: The need for speed
Derek Pringle explains that out-and-out pace is just one part of the equation.
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoEX ICC CEO Lorgat call for white-ball tax
By Richard Edwards Preserving Test cricket was always high on Haroon Lorgat’s priority list during his time as CEO of the...
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International News
/ 1 year agoWest Indies need action not sympathy
By Phil Walker Raw: Mikyle Louis showed promise at Lord’s on his first-class debut outside of the Caribbean On some level...
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International News
/ 1 year agoShastri calls for Test cricket to be streamlined
By Paul Eddison, Sportsbeat Test cricket needs to be reduced to six or seven teams to maintain interest in the format...
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Featured
/ 1 year agoANYONE FOR TENNIS?
Richard Clarke Richard Clarke wonders, with Test cricket likely to be played in a window in future, what the sport could...
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Latest News
/ 1 year ago“Until or unless you beat India or be competitive against them, the world will not recognise you” – Ramiz Raja
By Paul Eddison, Sportsbeat THE future of Pakistani cricket will come from thinking outside the box and doing everything possible to...
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Latest News
/ 1 year ago“My contests against Jimmy were some of my favourites” – Graeme Smith
By Paul Eddison, Sportsbeat GRAEME Smith has paid tribute to Jimmy Anderson, citing their battles among his favourite contests of his...
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Latest News
/ 1 year agoTHANK YOU JIMMY
By Matt Thacker Jimmy Anderson will bid farewell to Test cricket at Lord’s this week as he ends a phenomenal career...
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Derek Pringle
/ 1 year agoJIMMY SWANSONG SHINES LIGHT ON FRAGILE FUTURE
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Just in case anyone thought the upcoming Lord’s Test against the West Indies was a sentimental farewell to...
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Ben Gardner
/ 1 year agoJoin the Club: Sangakkara’s village outing
BEN GARDNERR The appearance of Kumar Sangakkara for a lowly club side got Ben Gardner thinking Looking back, of that generation...
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Annie Chave
/ 1 year agoSupersize me – The rise and rise of the cult cricketer
ANNIE CHAVE As the ECB and the counties discuss financial terms for the privatisation of the Hundred in the England and...
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Ben Gardner
/ 2 years agoGet excited, get very excited
BEN GARDNER It rarely takes the very best long to resume normal service after some time out. Think Steve Smith scoring...
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England News
/ 2 years agoTopley aiming to be top of the world
By Richard Edwards It’s a measure of Reece Topley’s longevity that he first played in a T20 World Cup as far...
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Annie Chave
/ 2 years agoFinding a second home
ANNIE CHAVE At the end of the 2020 season when, after 15 years playing and coaching on the county circuit, Australian...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoSlaughtered seamers need not despair
DARREN STEVENS The T20 World Cup begins next Saturday hard on the heels of the Indian Premier League in which arguably...
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IPL
/ 2 years agoJacks of all trades
By Richard Edwards Some players don’t take long to leave an imprint on their coach. Quite literally. Neil Stewart, a man...
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England News
/ 2 years agoJimmy in numbers
Here are a few of the numbers confirming Anderson as one of cricket’s true greats: 187 – Test matches, second to...
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Ben Gardner
/ 2 years agoLancs losses in sharp relief against Surrey’s success
BEN GARDNER "We need two extra points.” Head coach Gareth Batty, speaking at the end of Surrey’s latest dismantling of a...
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