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May 11, 2015 County cricket / England

Kevin Pietersen and the lonely ends of the spectra

2 minute read The Kevin Pietersen saga is often described as a soap opera. This is quite accurate because the defining feature of a soap opera is that IT NEVER ENDS. Okay, Crossroads and Eldorado did, but you get what we’re saying. For the most part they just rumble on, day after day,

May 9, 2015 England

Another day, another long-term plan

< 1 minute read England have sacked their coach; the coach they hired about a year ago with a view to rebuilding the side in time for the Ashes series which starts in about 45 minutes’ time. We’re increasingly wondering whether they should just scrap long-term plans in favour of short-termism. It seems a

May 8, 2015 Extras

Tony Cozier’s notebook

< 1 minute read Clearly the highlight of this weeks’ Twitter round-up. (Yes, we do still write that.) Our other favourite bit is Tino Best’s caption to a photo of himself where he claims he was bowling ‘thunderbolts’ and suggests that everyone nearby is looking on ‘in amazement’. To be totally clear, this is

May 7, 2015 Match report

World Cup 2015 report

2 minute read Sam writes: My baby was due to enter the world on February 18th, just a few days into the tournament. Not ideal timing, but at least he wasn’t interrupting The Ashes. In the end, he was late. Five days after the scheduled start of his innings, at risk of being

May 5, 2015 England

England mistakes that we too would have made

2 minute read Being as so many people seem to have very clear ideas about what England did wrong in the West Indies, we thought it might be nice to list some of the mistakes that England made that we too would have made – a kind of wilful spurning of hindsight, if

May 5, 2015 England

Jonathan Trott: the totem who knew his mind

4 minute read This article was first published on the All Out Cricket website in May 2015, but the All Out Cricket website no longer exists so we’re republishing it here. Jonathan Trott was never a cash-in player. He was never the guy who exploited tired bowling. He never stood on anyone else’s

May 5, 2015 England

Jonathan Trott – the king of relentlessness finally relents

< 1 minute read Our proper Jonathan Trott retirement piece is over on All Out Cricket. Other than that, here are two old posts which sum up different aspects of a top, top player. The first focuses on the sheer relentlessness of the man – surely his defining quality. If we have a happier

May 4, 2015 England / West Indies

Why wasn’t Captain Hindsight made England coach for this series?

3 minute read We can’t understand it. It seems such an obvious solution. Captain Hindsight wouldn’t have made all the obvious mistakes that Peter Moores made. Maybe England’s loss would have been embarrassing if the opposition had been as mediocre as they were infamously branded, but this West Indies side seemed to us

May 3, 2015 England / West Indies

Test action constriction and the case for a James Anderson ghola

< 1 minute read Wickets advance a Test match. Yesterday therefore had all the meaningful action of two days’ cricket – 18 wickets – constricted into one. Jerome Taylor kicked things off, but it was Jimmy Anderson who enjoyed himself to the full with six wickets for 42 runs off 12.4 overs. In the

May 2, 2015 England

Alastair Cook hasn’t made a hundred since yesterday

< 1 minute read Restart the clock. This may have been all of 10 runs more than he made just a handful of Tests ago, but it rewrites a tired script. Suddenly people can’t fall back on ‘hasn’t made a hundred since…’ and so they’re instead forced to look at the facts. Those facts

His nickname at Northern Districts was "flatline", good to see he's living up to it: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ind-vs-nz-pune-test-mitchell-santner-peaks-with-virat-kohli-wicket-1457007

Kohli career was destroyed by his wife.

Santner has got to be the least expressive man I've ever seen. Is he going through a divorce? His potm…

Great test turn-around by New Zealand after their drubbing by Sri Lanka. Never have I enjoyed a test series victory…

When was the last time you saw a bus conductor? Do such jobs still exist? I thought they'd gone the…

Hats off to Harry Brook’s very particular ‘steamrollered pancake pitch’ set of skills

Let’s pick the All-Time Greatest Middle-Aged XI

Less than the sum of their parts: Six Test batting partnerships that invariably disappointed

Five Graham Thorpe innings that were equal parts silly, brilliant and vital

Show me the money. Inattention and monetisation in Major League Cricket, The Hundred and Test cricket

Kevin Pietersen and the lonely ends of the spectra

Another day, another long-term plan

Tony Cozier’s notebook

World Cup 2015 report

England mistakes that we too would have made

Jonathan Trott: the totem who knew his mind

Jonathan Trott – the king of relentlessness finally relents

Why wasn’t Captain Hindsight made England coach for this series?

Test action constriction and the case for a James Anderson ghola

Alastair Cook hasn’t made a hundred since yesterday

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