England’s top order just can’t catch a break, but this is why all their critics are imbeciles of the highest order.
England won! And everyone is either really angry about how they did it or really angry that they did it because they wanted to be really angry about how they did it and now they can’t. Or something. Now we’re confused.
England against the weather and Alastair Cook against the world.
The England ladder: 30 names and not one of them rhymes with Moin Organ.
It was a long night – but a memorable one, particularly for the handsome family Compton.
2012 showed that England know their classics back to front. For it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, and it was the age of foolishness.
England sleepwalked their way to a big first innings lead despite their batsmen intermittently running themselves out for no apparent reason.