We throw down a gauntlet. Will Alastair Cook pick it up?
No, that title’s not a reference to the number of close fielders Sir Ian wants at any one time, but instead a rubbish pun on a film from a few years back. The actual article is about looking at English all-rounders. And weeping softly.
It’s been so long since Australia have played Test cricket, we’re suspicious of whether they still remember how.
It wasn’t just England who were the winners at Lord’s.
The ECB’s management of the KP issue has been so piss poor, it’s even making Shane Warne look wise.
Jonathan Trott: Great batsman? Yep. Great at running Australian openers out? Yep. Great bowler? HELL YES.
A new series that is yet another excuse to waffle on endlessly about how great Devereux is.
Batting at number three is basically the same as opening, right? Especially if the walking wicket of Alastair Cook is above you in the order.
51allout acknowledges a spectacular achievement as Alastair Cook reaches 700 days without a Test hundred.
For England, the future is the 90s.