After a long spell of rest and recuperation, England and India are back at it again. The hosts, as we’re fond of reminding everyone, failed to win a single international match in England, so they have some scores to settle.
The long awaited finale to our review of the County Championship sees us take a look at Lancashire, Warwickshire and Durham.
What the…?
The curtain comes down on the international summer this weekend as the West Indies fly in for a crucial T20 double header.
Yesterday we regaled you with tales of what it feels like to achieve absolutely nothing of note for an entire summer. Today we’re going to go one better, and review three teams who did even worse than that.
Now that the dust has settled on the domestic season, it’s time for us to desperately try to remember what happened while England were thrashing everyone out of sight and come up with some reviews of the season.
After an absence of over two years, Samit Patel has returned to the England fold this summer. In the interim many hours of debate during rain delays centred around how big a difference he would make to the side. We’ve managed to resist the obvious joke long enough to belatedly join the discussion.
England’s serene progress towards another enormous score was halted only by the weather, and when the sun returned their bowlers left India’s first innings in tatters once again.
Less than three years after being skittled at Sabina Park, England are top of the pile. How do they stay there?
Ravi Bopara returns to the England fold this week, but will he finally rise to the occasion and establish himself in the side?