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Cricket WI v Eng

I am waking up more confused and angrier each day

I have to confess that I wasn’t expecting the phone call I received from Andrew Strauss on Tuesday that started with him saying: ‘I’ve got some bad news.’ That’s not what you really want to hear on selection matters, and not something I have heard very often during my career of 152 Test caps. I […]

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Cricket The Ashes

On Captain Virat Kohli and Joe Root

“One of Kohli’s great achievements was instilling in his team a-craving-for Test cricket. Despite his all-encompassing success, Kohli’s major aim was to achieve victory in the Test arena and this is where his passion really shone” This is a tale of two cricket captains; one very good at his job and the other a failure. […]

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Cricket The Ashes

This team needs some tough love

“Of course, there has to be future planning but we are constantly looking far too far ahead. This Ashes has shown us that every Test is really important and it is time English cricket realised that from top to bottom” Watching England collapse again, losing all 10 wickets for 56 runs, is just a reflection […]

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Cricket Pak v Aus

The time to tour Pakistan is tomorrow

“I do hope that Australia will not cry off from the nation’s first cricketing tour of Pakistan in over two decades. Pakistan, in particular, deserve to host a full-strength Australian team, having had to play almost all of their cricket in the UAE for the past decade” If Mark Twain was alive he might say […]