Mark Wood's international career was defined by his total commitment to probably the most important idea in cricket; a mad idea that even its firmest disciples eventually turn away from because the ...

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Jacob Bethell finally scored his first professional hundred and did so in fine style. He’s still not doing his job in England’s one-day team though, because he’s being picked as half an all-rounder.

Pakistan play three Tests in England later this summer. You can never be entirely sure what you’re going to get from Pakistan, but it does feel like the range of unpredictability has been narrowing ...

Remember when Joe Root was England’s permanent Test captain? Remember Joe Root Burnout Watch? He did another three years after that and things got worse. That kind of experience will scar a man. Way ...

Of the England bowlers who won the first Test for England, Ben Stokes, Gus Atkinson and Ollie Robinson are all, for one reason or another, unavailable for selection for the second Test. In now time ...

In April 2024, Rob Key, Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum told James Anderson they were looking to regenerate the England Test bowling attack ahead of the next Ashes and could he maybe provide them with ...

Top level cricketers really care about what they do. Caring is the basic fuel for their careers. But whether it’s an Iranian gasfield, a Tesla Cybertruck battery or merely the giving of shits, ...

Voids get filled. The England Test team therefore has an awful lot of new stuff on the way later this summer – chiefly in these three main areas. If Ben Stokes isn’t England captain then the two most ...

“Yes, if it is to be said, so it be, so it is,” as Greg Hirsch would say. Harry Brook has been named England’s T20 and one-day international captain, as we all assumed he would be. So what happens ...

Every bowler has their own bowling action, but Dan Lawrence’s is more obviously his own than most. These are the three best moments in it. Not wishing the batter to be under any illusions that he ...

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