Posts Tagged "England cricket"

Australia have selected a strong team of seam bowlers to contest the Ashes in the UK. You can judge this by who has been left out.

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Hysterical bias married with a good helping of gamesmanship always accompanies the term ‘The Worst Ashes Squad Ever’, with it more often than not leading to egg being left on the faces of the ones so eager to exalt it.

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With cricket’s biggest showdown now just over two months away, I have lined up the two likely starting XIs for the first Ashes Test in their order and pitted them against each other in a fight to determine a winner.

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England captain Alastair Cook believes his team could be on the verge of a period of sustained dominance which would peak with a World Cup triumph in two years.

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England coach Andy Flower admits his players will need to show significant improvement from their drawn series against New Zealand if they are to retain the Ashes against Australia this year.

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New Zealand’s much beleaguered cricketers stand on the cusp of an unexpected series win against England, requiring just six more wickets on the final day of the third Test in Auckland.

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Former England cricketer Angus Fraser says less than four months out from the Ashes it’s reassuring to see England’s greatest rivals “getting stuffed by India”.

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England say the lessons have been learned from their senseless first innings as they eye another comfortable day at the crease to ensure the first cricket Test against New Zealand in Dunedin is drawn.

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The name stood out immediately, NRD Compton, opening the batting for England at Dunedin in the first Test yesterday against the Kiwis – the grandson of the legendary Denis Compton.

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The scorecard at the end of the first day’s play was not at all unexpected – 167 all out followed by 131/0 in reply.

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The Prime Minister’s XI have snuck home against the West Indies by 23 runs in Canberra after a “David Warner-esque” performance by an unknown local.

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In the ongoing debate to determine the planet’s broadest bat, this Australian summer has seen loads of manic talk about the wide-ranging sword powers of Michael Clarke and Hashim Amla and which of these two should be fitted for the yellow jersey.

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A slow five minutes in the office last week resulted in a glance at a few bookmakers’ sites and a quite surprising revelation.

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What are the key points of discussion in the world of cricket over the past week?

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England coach Andy Flower on Tuesday refused to say whether Kevin Pietersen still had an international future, after the star batsman was omitted from the squad for the next month’s World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka.

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Vernon Philander took five wickets as South Africa replaced England as the world’s No.1 Test side with a 51-run win in the third Test at Lord’s on Monday.

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South Africa were just a session away from replacing England as the world’s No.1 Test side on the fifth day of the third and final Test at Lord’s on Monday.

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Could it be that Kevin Pietersen is spectacularly cutting ties with England in a bid to give Australia a leg-up before the next Ashes?

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Despite the forced retractions and half-hearted mea culpa, it seems Kevin Pietersen has played his last game for England, after he was dropped from the Test side before the series decider against South Africa.

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In the past few weeks, we have seen it all from Kevin Pietersen. First, he retired from One Day internationals and then the T20 format.

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