If we had a penny for every time we’d been told ‘if only the West Indies could pick their strongest team’, we might be able to scrape together enough to pay Noel Edmonds’ legal expenses.
With the Pune Warriors’ IPL campaign coming to a predictably depressing conclusion, we run the rule over their performance this season. Dada fanboys and those with a weak stomach might want to skip this one. It’s not going to be pretty.
After an early wobble, Alastair Cook and Ian Bell comfortably saw England home.
On a cold and long day, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and his cronies keep England at bay in a manner that tested the spectators’ faith.
Another tough week of cricket in the County Championship saw plenty of bad weather, just one result and rising levels of excitement about the imminent arrival of Phil Hughes.
England were unable to really press home their advantage in the early part of the day, but taking three wickets for no runs just before tea put them in a winning position.
Yeeeeeeesssss! Not our words, the words of Andrew Strauss.
England were well below their best on the opening day of the international summer, but only Shivnarine Chanderpaul offered genuine resistance and they ended it in the ascendancy.
Test cricket’s back in England! The West Indies are here to whet our appetites for later in the summer. We’re going to make them grovel. Or something.