Test cricket’s back in England! The West Indies are here to whet our appetites for later in the summer. We’re going to make them grovel. Or something.
With over a quarter of the County Championship over already, it’s time to take a glance at the performances of some players who might be harbouring England ambitions.
Yorkshire aren’t exactly setting the second division on fire this season, so what they obviously need is a very public falling out with one of their supposed best players. What exactly is going on with Ajmal Shahzad?
Not content with watching the IPL so our beloved readers don’t have to, we also sent someone else to Colombo last month so they didn’t have to get their passports all dirty and used. Upon his return he scribbled down some notes about his trip and gave them to us, in exchange for a shot of gin and a life size portrait of Steve Smith that we stole from a KFC Big Bash party thing earlier this year.
You have to be pretty good to be that rubbish over the winter and still be the best team in the world.
After an entire winter of collapsing in a heap as soon as they saw the finish line, England finally got over it after perhaps their finest team performance since the Ashes.
A day of genuine old-fashioned attritional Test cricket in which almost nothing happened, gripping us for the full 90 overs. Graeme Swann’s double strike in the penultimate over was just reward for not quite getting around to the washing up for eight hours.
Kevin Pietersen’s masterclass fires England into a dominant position.
Whoever kept England’s proper batsmen hidden away for the whole winter is a bastard.
Jimmy Anderson destroyed the Sri Lankan top order before Mahela Jayawardene rescued his side with a beautifully crafted century… Haven’t we seen this somewhere before?