It might not be obvious at first glance, but Jack Leach is tough. His career has been built on confounding expectations and overcoming obstacles, many of which would have floored less tenacious characters. Still, he admits the assault he received from Rishabh Pant on the third day of England’s series […]
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There are Cup Finals and cup finals in football. Cup Finals, capital C capital F, are finite and get played at vast arenas, with much fanfare and a trophy at the end; cup finals, lower case and metaphorical, are different. A cup final can involve two teams in the bottom […]
Nathan Lyon has never been the type let his guard down when a microphone is in front of him. Sure, he was always unlikely to be the most verbose of characters, having arrived at international cricket from nowhere as a shy 23-year-old who had never been on the national pathway […]
Cricket’s anti-corruption unit on alert for match-fixing ahead of England’s Test series with Sri Lanka with former star Sanath Jayasuriya returning from a two-year ban for failing to co-operate with officials Cricket’s anti-corruption unit is on alert for England’s Test series with Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s image has been tarred […]
Oti Mabuse, 30, was partnered with Graeme Swann, 41, on Strictly Come Dancing in 2018. The retired sportsman has now revealed he is rooting for his former dance partner and Bill Bailey, 55, to lift the Glitterball Trophy in Saturday’s final. Graeme claimed that Oti is naturally determined to be […]
Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden, 31, has opened up about her battle with Crohn’s disease, a condition which causes inflammation of the lining of the digestive system, in a new BBC documentary, Strictly Amy: Crohn’s And Me. Despite living with the disease since she was a child, the brave […]
The Don Bradman of umpiring, as Mike Atherton cast him this summer, is considering the most obvious question — why is he so good? Sitting at the kitchen table of his Hartlepool home, rather than standing behind the stumps at Old Trafford or the Ageas Bowl, Michael Gough’s trademark deliberation […]
(Reuters) – The sight of England left-arm spinner Derek Underwood coming off his unusually long run with a batsman at the other end of a wet pitch surrounded by close fielders perfectly conjured up the image of a wily fox closing on its prey. His mastery on sticky surfaces prompted […]