A strong Yorkshire equals a strong…
...England. Tykes doing not bad in their return to the County Championship top flight, while their players are away helping England get back on the winning track. ...read this Blog post →
The mollycoddling of Kevin Pietersen…
...is slightly over the top. Would it really have mattered a bit what he scored if England's bowlers couldn't take 20 wickets? ...read this Blog post →
Tags → Cricket, England, Graeme Swann, India, Kevin Pietersen, Monty Panesar, Test Match
That number one millstone has…
...gone in tests. England go into today's one day international against South Africa trying to hang onto their top place in the rankings for the 50 over game but the one that really matters is gone. ...read this Blog post →
It’s a good job South Africa were…
...undercooked. Just imagine what an embarrassment for the number one ranked team in the world it could have been if the visiting South Africans were on top form. ...read this Blog post →
Tags → Australia, Cricket, England, Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Oval, Ravi Bopara, South Africa, Test Match, Tim Bresnan
Is Tim Bresnan the Rodney Dangerfield of cricket…
...he don't get no respect! Thirteen games, thirteen England victories, most wickets in both innings and the match, third top scorer what more does Tim Bresnan have to do? ...read this Blog post →
Tags → Cricket, England, Freddie Flintoff, Steven Finn, Test Match, Tim Bresnan, West Indies
England tried their very best…
...to blow it. But they couldn't just manage it because as with 11 previous Test matches when they have Tim Bresnan in the side they just win even if he doesn't do that much. ...read this Blog post →
Being number one, how’s that working…
...for ya. What's that now four straight Test Match defeats after gaining the number one ranking in the world. Only England. ...read this Blog post →
Tags → Cricket, England, Ian Bell, Jonathan Trott, Matt Prior, Sri Lanka, Test Match, TMS
Whitewash…
...with style. England really put on the style to be whitewashed by Pakistan in the recent three match test series in the UAE. ...read this Blog post →
Tags → Cricket, Dubai, England, Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Monty Panesar, Pakistan, Stuart Broad, Test Match, UAE
England take grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory…
...to a new level. Just when they were thinking the last test match was just a blip they go and surpass it. I wonder if they'll learn from this or just take the positives. ...read this Blog post →
They’ll learn from this…
...yeah I know...they'll probably take the positives from it as well. Is there anyone out there think the England cricket team will learn anything from this humiliating capitulation to Pakistan in Dubai? ...read this Blog post →
Tags → Cricket, Dubai, England, Eoin Morgan, Geoffrey Boycott, Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Pakistan, Sport, Test Match
Does whitewash even cover…
...this series thumping. Has there ever been a team to come to these shores and be on the end of such a shellacking in a test match series? ...read this Blog post →
Which team is number one…
...again? If you didn't know the test rankings but were told one of these was number one and then watched the first two tests of this series you wouldn't pick India, would you even have them in the top 5? ...read this Blog post →
Tags → Cricket, England, India, Sachin Tendulkar, Sport, Stuart Broad, Test Match, Tim Bresnan
We’ve Ian Bell as Dopey, just need 6 more dwarves…
...for the set. Ian Bell wasn't naive but just slack and stupid to be run out before tea on the fourth day of the second test. But apparently he was only partly to blame. ...read this Blog post →
Tags → Cricket, England, Ian Bell, India, MS Dhoni, Raul Dravid, Sport, Test Match
So it ends how it started…
...with a damp meh. Three damp squid test series against Sri Lanka finished appropriately with rain stopping play as England yet again struggled to bowl the visitors out to win the final test. ...read this Blog post →
Tags → Chris Tremlett, Cricket, England, Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, media, Sport, Sri Lanka, Stuart Broad, Test Match
The fact that it doesn't come as a big shock…
...is the most shocking thing. Is it any real shock that members of the Pakistan cricket team have been implicated in a betting scam as a middle man took £150k and the no-balls followed. ...read this Blog post →