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Shami, Umesh, Bhuvneshwar - India's Best Test Battery Ever!
Posted on - Nov 21, 2017
While you have a Bhuvneshwar to swing the ball, Shami has mastered the art of both swing and seam. And you can trust Umesh to toil day-in and day-out even when the pitch isn’t conducive to pace bowling. Yes, there was a Zaheer Khan before this and a Javagal Srinath before that, but they never had the striking partner that a Wasim Akram found in Waqar Younis or a James...
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Stuart Broad hails ‘dream’ day as historic haul puts England
Posted on - Aug 06, 2015
Bowler claimed career-best figures of eight for 15 on day one at Trent Bridge
‘It’s great to have a personal best against Australia,’ says Broad
Stuart Broad reflected on a dream performance after delivering on the request from his captain, Alastair Cook, to make history in the fourth Test with the greatest Ashes figures ever returned by a fast bowler, claiming eight for 15 on day one at Trent Bridge that means...
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Australia’s Chris Rogers apologises for his role in resale of
Posted on - Jun 24, 2015
Rogers banned from selling Ashes tickets for Lord’s Test
Opener insists Middlesex were fully aware of his intentions
The Australian opener Chris Rogers offered an apology for his role in the unsanctioned resale of Ashes tickets for this summer’s Test at Lord’s but has been left disappointed after insisting Middlesex were fully aware of his intentions.
Rogers, who retires from international cricket following the series in England, set up a company called Inside...
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Trevor Bayliss: ODI victory over New Zealand bodes well for
Posted on - Jun 24, 2015
England coach is scheduled to start his new role on Thursday
‘It sounds like they’re in a good place and they’re enjoying themselves’
The new England coach, Trevor Bayliss, believes the recent one-day international series victory over New Zealand bodes well for their chances in this summer’s Ashes.
Bayliss is scheduled to start work in his new post on Thursday before the five-match series, which begins in Cardiff on 8 July. A 14-man...
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Alastair Cook and cricket greatness
Posted on - Jun 23, 2015
His sheer bloody-minded self-belief has brought with it 114 England caps, 27 hundreds and 9,000 Test runs, but has Cook lifted himself among the greats?
Nine thousand runs, 27 hundreds, 114 caps; more runs and more centuries than any other Englishman, the eternal Graham Gooch eclipsed... We must start to consider the greatness of Alastair Cook: the statistics alone demand it.
It feels strange to do so, because Cook is so evidently...
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Craig Kieswetter says England dressing room was riven by
Posted on - Jun 22, 2015
Success changed people’ says wicketkeeper
‘There was a sense of them and us’
Craig Kieswetter has said that the England team he played in was riven by cliques with players dividing up into South Africans against English during training sessions.
The former Somerset wicketkeeper and batsman said that although he entered a united dressing room in early 2010, winning the World T20 and then the Ashes in Australia “changed people”.
“It wasn’t just us...
