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.
A preview of the South Africa vs. Australia T20 series opener, complete with a discussion about beards and a couple of cheap jokes about Steve Smith.
One of the most familiar sounds to a cricketing armchair viewer, from Hobart to Hove to Hyderabad, will be the elongated vowel sounds of Tony Greig.
Ian Salisbury: not very good. Discuss.
After a fantabulous summer for England, they now face a long gap until their next Test in Dubai in January, interspersed with the forthcoming five ODIs in India. With nine of the first XI essentially penned in already, it will be interesting to see any of the youngsters perform on the India tour, or if any of the Lions and performance squad players can manoeuvre their way into the squad. Anyway, with no further ado, these are the 30 players ranked in order of what we vaguely call importance to the selectors.
The long awaited finale to our review of the County Championship sees us take a look at Lancashire, Warwickshire and Durham.
Another three county reviews; this time, the cream of division two.
Somerset, Sussex and Nottinghamshire all had respectable but disappointing seasons.
A review of the season for Worcestershire, Yorkshire and Hampshire.
With it being a rare non-cricketing week (the Champions League T20 doesn’t count unless Somerset win it) we took the opportunity to have a look at the career of Mitchell Johnson. Warning: contains a picture that his mum may find offensive