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February 25, 2022 England / West Indies

Five fiendishly difficult questions for England on their West Indies tour

3 minute readEngland’s tour of the West Indies gets underway on Tuesday with the hotly-anticipated match against TBA. Three Test matches follow during which we may or may not get answers to these five fiendishly difficult questions. (1) Is this a ‘development tour’ or not? Development tour? Who said ‘development tour’? Actually,

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

August 30, 2021 England / India / Uncategorized

The almighty cumulative power of Joe Root’s nothing shot

2 minute read“Oh that’s a nothing shot,” they say – but only when you get out to it. We were thinking about this particular shot of Joe Root’s after watching the BBC highlights the other day. The BBC highlights are an hour long and with no ads, it’s what you might call

February 25, 2021 England / India

The best part of Joe Root’s weird-arsed 5-8 v India at Ahmedabad

2 minute readBusy day. Lots of wickets and even one or two deliveries that didn’t result in wickets. Somewhere in amongst it all, Joe Root took 5-8. For many people, the best part of Root’s spell was the moment when he had 3-0. For other people, the best part was the perfect-o-ball

February 6, 2021 England / India

Did you see… Joe Root standing at the other end?

2 minute readWhere are we now with Joe Root hundreds? Last month we were asking at what point a Joe Root innings becomes noteworthy? Our point was that a mere hundred from Root doesn’t really feel like big news any more. It needs to be at least a ‘daddy’ hundred for people

January 27, 2021 England / Pakistan / South Africa / Sri Lanka

Root’s Moose Cup Powered by Daraz | Mop-up of the day

3 minute readThree things, okay? Thing 1 Just as with Botham’s Ashes, the 2021 Moose Cup Powered by Daraz seems destined to be forever remembered as Root’s Moose Cup Powered by Daraz. In the first Test, Sri Lanka made 135 and then Joe Root made 228. In the second Test, Root made

January 16, 2021 England / Sri Lanka

At what exact point does a Joe Root innings become noteworthy?

2 minute readJoe Root has always been a batsman who’s scored about 40 more runs than you thought he had. Like a man on an e-bike, he glides along far quicker than seems to make sense given the effort he appears to be putting in. People really didn’t talk about Root all

September 3, 2019 Australia / England