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The LV County Championship: Day Two, Week 15
The penultimate round of County Championship games continued today, and a reasonable amount of play was on show despite the gloomy weather around much of the country.
England vs India, 4th Test, The Oval: Preview
The war is won but a final battle remains, as England look to seal what would be a wholly deserved series whitewash.
England vs India, Third Test: Day Three Review
England piled up their third-highest ever score and Alastair Cook scored a career best 294 as a one-sided series became ever more one-sided.
England vs India, Third Test: Day One review
A familiar tale as England’s pace attack blew the much vaunted Indian batting line-up away for a sub-par total.
England vs Sri Lanka, Headingley, Second ODI: Preview
In a sentence After an emphatic and arguably unexpected victory on Tuesday at The Oval, England will look to take a firm grip on this series with another commanding performance. The home team: Expected to be unchanged with no injury concerns reported. The away team: Sanath Jayasuriya has done a Sinatra and retired again, so […]
England vs Sri Lanka, only T20I, The County Ground: Player Reviews
England 136/9 (Morgan 47, Pietersen 41, Malinga 2-15) Sri Lanka 137/1 (M Jayawardene 72*, Sangakkara 43*, Dernbach 1-18) England: Craig Kieswetter: Made a lot of noises pre-match about how hard he’d worked on his game and that big improvements had been made. Keeping wise, there was evidence of this with much tidier glovework on show […]
West Indies vs India, First Test: The Numbers
This post is from the ever lovely fyre, who will hopefully be joining us full-time later in the summer for a take on all things Indian: Cricket has always been a game of numbers. As India begin their three Test series against the West Indies today, after a gap of five years, on a dampish […]
England vs Sri Lanka, Third Test: Day Three Review
Sri Lanka 184 (HAPW Jayawardene 43, Tremlett 6-48) England 195/4 (Pietersen 85, Cook 55, Welegedara 1-40) In a sentence A frustrating day for the fans in many ways as the continued poor weather disrupted play, but nevertheless England put themselves in a potentially match-winning position. Player of the day Kevin Pietersen made a superb 85 […]
England vs Sri Lanka, Third Test, The Rose Bowl: Day One Review
Rain limited play to just 38 overs on the opening day of the first ever Test at Southampton Sri Lanka 81/4 (Samaraweera 24*, P Jayawardene 10*, Tremlett 2-17) In a sentence What was always going to be a bowler’s day, if a foreshortened one, proved to be exactly that. Player of the day Chris […]
England vs Sri Lanka, The Rose Bowl, 16-20 June 2011, Third Test Preview
In a sentence: England will look to seal yet another home series victory over a Sri Lankan team which still looks decidedly pedestrian with the ball and is lacking their captain Tillekeratne Dilshan, who scored 193 in the Second Test at Lord’s. The home team: James Anderson will return at the expense of Steven Finn, […]
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