Here we go again. Two days into the second Ashes Test at Adelaide, England faced a familiar struggle after openers Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed fell cheaply in response to Australia’s powerful 473 for nine. Not long after, with England clinging on at 17 for two, a dramatic flash of […]
Haseeb Hameed
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There was a rather tender moment after lunch on day one, as Joe Root gathered his England team into their traditional post-interval huddle. This can be a deceptively fraught moment for a captain, geometrically speaking. Allow the same faces to occupy their usual place in the huddle, and you risk […]
Joe Root could not have asked for more than this. The perfect response to the most damaging defeat and a day of total domination over an India side seemingly poised for a significant series triumph. England were so good here it was ridiculous. How brilliant they were against all expectations […]
When Haseeb Hameed registered his second century of the match for Nottinghamshire in the County Championship game against Worcestershire last week, film showed a dressing room bursting with pleasure. It was not confined to the players; all round the country affection bubbles for a young man treated most unkindly by […]
Test cricket is a game of contrasts: bat/ball, spin/pace, out/not out. It’s risk v reward, creamy whites and cherry reds. Days of meticulous planning against a moment of sheer instinct. Division is also at its core: batsmen play bowlers, county v country, a history of amateurs and professionals. Great rivalries […]
Trent Bridge: Lancashire v Nottinghamshire Moved from Old Trafford because of the Greater Manchester lockdown. Notts have had a dreadful start to the Bob Willis Trophy – still winless in first-class cricket since June 2018. Assistant coach Kevin Shine has reported some “tricky conversations” after defeat by Yorkshire last Tuesday, […]
10.46am BST10:46 News that the BCCI are intending to hold a women’s IPL, to run alongside the last leg of the men’s IPL, November 1-10 in the UAE. Sources say it will consist of four teams and is expected to involve some overseas players, though it will clash with the […]
To this the first round of five of the new and one-off Bob Willis Trophy, remembering the man and all his magnificent eccentricities in a new world that was impossible to envisage as Essex lifted the County Championship trophy at Taunton that almost-pulsating afternoon last September. Here’s hoping it is […]