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This is just confusing for NWG. What do they mean? Why choose Ian Bell? What’s secret about him? Since when is a 5 foot man a weapon?Someone please provide some answers.
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The BBC go with ‘Craig Kieswetter keeps England one-day spot’. Cricinfo have got ‘Craig Kieswetter and Ian Bell earn ODI calls’.
In what world is this news? Craig Kieswetter hit a hundred in his last one-day interna...(more)


The question posed in the title of this article is one I have been struggling with for some time now, since roughly around the time Collingwood, Ian Bell and Graham Onions were saving the third Test on a hot day in Cape Town.Back then I tho...(more)



How well do England’s batsmen fight back after a bad test match?I defined a bad test match as one where the player scored a total of 30 runs or less (i.e. an average of 15 or less). I excluded tests when the player had only batted onc...(more)


Much has been made of Ian Bell’s inability to make runs in times of crisis. But this afternoon raised some questions about how well England’s bowlers respond to pressure. Of course, you can’t expect bowlers to tear through...(more)

Alistair Cook and Ian Bell both gave middle finger salutes to their critics in Durban. (Not literally, they are both far too polite.)So who are the new Cook and Bell?JP DuminyA year ago, Duminy’s heroics led South Africa to victory in...(more)

NB This is a selector-bashing rather than a Luke Wright-bashing piece.I don’t think England’s selectors actually have the confidence to give Luke Wright his test debut in South Africa. I’d agree with them; I think there ar...(more)

It was strange that the TMS commentators didn’t give Collingwood much praise. It was strange that while England folded, I didn’t consider the possiblity that Collingwood would get out in those final overs. His heroics don’...(more)

Alistair Cook had a poor Ashes and looked out of sorts in the first innings. Ian Bell’s dismissal in the first innings cemented himself as England’s most exasperating player. No-one wants to be told again what great technique he...(more)

It seems all of a sudden we have a remarkable knack of holding on for draws in tests which we have no right to save, at Cardiff in the Ashes and at Centurion in the first test of this series.Today’s remarkable result is very much down...(more)

Right. NWG has calmed herself (a little bit, at least), and today the full weight of yesterday’s play has dawned on her.England are finally good at something.They can save Test matches.Graham Onion’s performance yesterday was un...(more)


England needed to get quick wickets this morning, Jacques Kallis in particular, and we did, taking the remaining 4 South African wickets in just 17 balls with only 12 runs being scored, making 291 runs in the innings.Kallis was the first ma...(more)


England 574 for 9 dec (Bell 140, Cook 118) beat South Africa 343 (Kallis 75, Smith 75) and 133 (Swann 5-54) by an innings and 98 runsTeam of the day: EnglandPlayer of the day: Graeme Swann It was more a case of when than if England ...(more)
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