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Discussing England’s Test tea...

Following England’s defeat in Antigua, the series against the West Indies has been lost and England ...

The Trevor Bayliss contradiction – ODI glory, Test misery

There are fewer than 120 days until the Cricket World Cup. The last time the event took place, England were not up to the pac...

Long read: is Australian cricket missing the point?

AB de Villiers set to become T20 mercenary

October 25, 2018
Fans of South Africa were left in shock when AB de Villiers announced his international retirement in May 2018 after indicating only months before that he was focused on winning the 2019 World Cup wi...

Will Jason Roy soon be in England’s Test XI?

October 1, 2018
Jason Roy has long been on England’s Test radar and it’s something that many England supporters are understandably wary of. Whilst his all-out attack has worked well atop England’s ODI batting order ...

Alastair Cook: hero and villain

September 12, 2018
You would struggle to believe it given all the hoopla around Alastair Cook’s recent retirement from international cricket, but he wasn’t a universally popular figure. Of course, he was widely respect...

What is England’s plan for the Test XI?

September 4, 2018
England have managed to secure another home series win, but is the defeat of India enough to suggest that the future of this side is a bright one? Batting collapses remain a consistent theme and the ...

England’s Buttler problem

August 16, 2018
There will always be a clamour for Jos Buttler to be inserted into England’s Test XI. He’s an outrageously talented and expansive batsmen whose exploits in the white ball formats make him irresistibl...

What if Dale Steyn had remained fit?

July 20, 2018
This week Dale Steyn will become South Africa’s leading Test match wicket taker when he overhauls Shaun Pollock’s record (with whom he is currently level at the time of writing) of 421 wickets. It is...