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.
We need to stop talking about Kevin Pietersen.
The ECB’s management of the KP issue has been so piss poor, it’s even making Shane Warne look wise.
The end of the second Peter Moores era means only one thing: time to start counting down until the third era starts. The 51allouters have their say on England’s latest shambles, drop some shocking #Verity news and generally get confused about the IPL.
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.
We tried really, really hard to find something bad to say about Richie Benaud, and failed utterly. So we wrote this instead.
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.