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May 17, 2024 England

Jack Leach’s back, Tongue still out

3 minute readSometimes you can’t choose between awful body part puns for your headline. What can you do in that situation other than mash them together so that neither quite works? Jack Leach’s back As in ‘returned’. He hasn’t got ankylosing spondylitis or anything. It was in fact a stress fracture that

April 29, 2024 England / Features

Raise your glasses: Jack Leach’s three silliest innings

7 minute readAs a bowler, Jack Leach is not at all silly. He is diligent, consistent and reliable, none of which are silly qualities. And because he is first and foremost a bowler, this encourages the notion that Leach is somehow not a silly cricketer, which is entirely incorrect. Give Jack Leach

January 24, 2024 England / India

“I hear you’re an opening bowler now, Jack. How did you get interested in that type of thing?”

2 minute readDoing your cricket things slightly earlier in the match is all the rage this month. Steve Smith’s become an opening batter. Jack Leach (or Rehan Ahmed or Tom Hartley or Joe Root) has become an opening bowler. England have picked just one quick bowler, Mark Wood, for the first Test

June 27, 2022 England / New Zealand

Stokes and McCullum have the Jack Leach they created

2 minute readIf you’re attentive and possessed of a decent memory, you’ll clock that the headline above is a very obvious reference to our December article, Root and Silverwood have the Jack Leach they created. There’s a contrast in man management here and if you read that article again, you’ll easily see

March 25, 2022 England / West Indies

That day when a third of the highlights were a 10th wicket partnership

2 minute readIt’s probably best to avoid extrapolating from that England innings in a bid to predict the course of this Test match. England went to Grenada and were at various points 53-3, 53-6, 114-9 and 204-9. This all added up to one of the weirdest-arsed scorecards you are ever likely to

January 14, 2022 Australia / England

Chris Woakes with the old ball, Mark Wood for his third Test in three weeks – dissecting England’s latest omission of a spinner for a day/night Test match

3 minute readThere is no right answer when it comes to England’s Test team selection right now. But there are different types of odd decision. The omission of a spinner for a day/night Test is the most predictable one. England picked five right-arm fast-medium bowlers and no spinner for the day/night Test

December 10, 2021 Australia / England

Root and Silverwood have the Jack Leach that they created

3 minute readThe England Test team run by Joe Root and Chris Silverwood is not big on picking spinners. It is even less big on picking Jack Leach. A rare appearance in the first Ashes Test saw the left-armer get walloped, so how comfortable will the two head honchos be about picking

January 7, 2021 Australia / England / Features

What Ben Stokes, Jack Leach and Headingley 2019 tell us about Test cricket

5 minute readEngland v Australia, third Test, day four It’s six or out… … It’s six! Jonathan Agnew, Test Match Special Have you seen No Country For Old Men? You should watch No Country For Old Men. No Country For Old Men is a striking and excellent film and while the ending

August 30, 2019 Australia / England