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Plenty will be needed from Joe Root with both bat and ball in what remains of what is now a single innings shootout at the end of this compelling Ashes battle. But the former England captain has already done more than most to set up this suitably gripping series finale […]
BUMBLE AT THE TEST: Seems it was right to back Zak Crawley and Joe Root pulls off extraordinary ramp for six Pat Cummins spent his down-time in between Test in his wife’s town Harrogate A selfie-hunter proved butter-fingered with a full pint of Guinness on Thursday Zak Crawley starred for […]
Everything pointed to bowling first. The skies were brooding, the air was moist, the pitch was green and the floodlights were on. When Ben Stokes won the toss and reconfirmed an England XI now featuring a four-pronged seam attack, not even a captain known for flipping convention could resist the […]
The first Ashes Test at Edgbaston is finely poised, with Australia requiring 174 runs and England seven wickets to claim victory. The visitors are perhaps still favourites to take a 1-0 lead despite England’s late flurry, and, with Usman Khawaja at the crease overnight, they’ll have full confidence of doing […]
There are no bad shots. Five balls after tea on a febrile, at times slightly hallucinogenic first day of the first Ashes Test Joe Root went down on one knee, shifted his grip, waited, then very gently and carefully reverse-nudged a ball from Scott Boland, Australia’s first-change new ball bowler, […]
In a batting performance as dominant as England’s against Ireland at Lord’s, and in a team devouring various scoring records, one milestone slightly slipped under the radar. On day two, as Joe Root clipped Curtis Campher into the leg side for an easy single on the stroke of tea, he […]
Ben Stokes has given up warm-up cricket, pared back his training sessions and, in response to a chronic left knee problem that might have prompted a break earlier on in his career, the all-rounder has cut his bowling to moments of absolute necessity. This is not to say Stokes is […]