In the second of an occasional series exploring the reconstruction of the Australian Test team ahead of the next Ashes series, our attention turns to who will be behind the stumps for the Aussies come the northern summer next year.
When we wrote our predictions for the Pakistan vs. England series, we should have added a warning about the risks of betting, or maybe the effects of drinking.
Get to number one. Get whitewashed. Drop everyone. Start again.
Pakistan continued to dominate with the bat, before a flurry of wickets gave England a smidgeon of hope.
The latest in our Alphabet XIs. Plenty of quality players available: who will make the grade?
After a series chiefly based around batting torment, the likes of which last seen when Ronnie Irani was playing for England, today saw Pakistan take firm control of the game with patient but controlled innings from Azhar Ali and Younus Khan, the latter scoring the first century of the series.
International T20 matches are still fairly uncommon occurences. Australia and India played two this week and here’s what we thought of them.
Ordinarily, dismissing your hosts for 99 after they won the toss would be cause for joy. But this was no ordinary day; it was a day that had observers reaching for their thesauruses trying to find both new superlatives and new curses.
After a rather eventful sojourn to Abu Dhabi it’s back to Dubai for Pakistan and England for the final game of the series. A dead rubber it may be, but there’s more than pride at stake, especially for the beleagured English batsmen.
Much like policemen and teachers, aren’t the Sky Sports cricket pundits getting younger? Last summer Nick Knight was promoted to the Test match commentary team and this winter has seen a long line of recently retired (or soon to retire) players giving their views on the various matches from around the world. But amidst the Butchers, Corks and Keys lurks a strange grey-haired giant.