BBC correspondent and former England player Jonathan Agnew says “it’s sad” the game now refers to all players as batters.
Every time the Black Caps threatened to pull back into the Test,it appeared they were merely being cued up for more pain.
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.
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.
Mitchell Marsh’s one-day international dominance in the year Australia won the 50-over World Cup in India lifted him to a popular victory in the Allan Border Medal count.
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Lyn Larsen still lives on the banana farm where she grew up,but somewhere along the way,she managed a hall of fame cricket career.
In the 1930s,“synthetic” cricket broadcasts brought the excitement of Ashes Tests in England into Australian homes for the first time.
As Australia reckoned with Bazball during the Ashes,Pakistan were having a proactive revival of their own. But captain Shan Masood has a tough job to follow it through on these shores.
Travis Head believes Stuart Broad’s sledge “that’s all you’ll be remembered for” will not have aged well by the time Alex Carey hangs up his gloves
Usman Khawaja and Glenn Maxwell believe a revolution led by Andrew McDonald and George Bailey is key to Australia’s year of success.