BBC correspondent and former England player Jonathan Agnew says “it’s sad” the game now refers to all players as batters.
Just as Achilles had his heel,it is the one area of his game – his life? – wherein Ben Stokes is not his positive and proactive self:when he starts a Test innings against spin in India.
Australia,England and India were given a blueprint to save Test cricket last year. They left it on the shelf.
The author of the report which rocked English cricket has hit out at the legendary all-rounder and the ECB for failing to call him out on his comments.
Forget the Jonny Bairstow stumping. The reason England lost at Lord’s and Rajkot was because they gifted wickets away when the match was there for the taking.
Joe Root’s reverse-scoop at India’s most dangerous bowler,Jasprit Bumrah,wrecked England’s chances of winning this Test and this series.
The Australians run the risk of becoming a jaded,aged team by the end of next year. You only have to look to 2006/07 to see what the results of that can be.
Former English cricketer Peter Roebuck was “in despair” and being arrested on suspicion of sexual assault when he died 13 years ago.
Umpire Marais Erasmus turned down India’s lbw appeal,but their review showed the ball to be hitting leg-stump en route to a series-levelling 106-run win for the hosts.
An English batter was given out for handling the ball in bizarre scenes at the Under 19 World Cup.
Speculation has been rife over the sort of pitch India could serve up for the remainder of the series after England’s first-Test heist in Hyderabad.