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 to the focussed batting displays from Paul Collingwood who made 40 and Ian Bell who made 78, with the four batsmen surrounding Colly and Bell on the scorecard ...
England named their 30-man provisional squad for the ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies on Monday and when you break it down there’s a pretty tough squad of form players who could well be contenders.Craig Kieswetter is the latest South African making it big in Blighty and his inclusion in the squad was a mere formality. Other noobs include Peter Trego and Michael Lumb, both of whom did we...
Knowing our depth of feeling about Ian Bell, you must be desperate to read how we’re going to cover the news that he’s likely to replace Kevin Pietersen for the rest of the Ashes. It’s heated debate like what follows that makes the cricket world tick.
Angry that Ian Bell’s back?
You are wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. [...]
We were struck that England actually had a good batting line-up today; one with rare solidity.
With Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott opening, England have grown-ups at the top of the order. There’s a dependable feel about both of them and the rest of the line-up hangs off that.
In the middle order, Kevin Pietersen’s ace, Paul [...]
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