2 minute readOur rule with white ball cricket is that if you’re bearing down on a World Cup, you pay attention to that particular format, and then immediately stop paying attention afterwards. The competition currently known as the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup is due to take place in October 2021. Being
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Buttler, Bairstow and Foakes – England’s embarrassment of adequacy
3 minute read“I’m putting a team together for a job.” “You son of a bitch. I’m in.” In heist movies, whenever they put a team together, everyone’s always the best of the best; the best there’s ever been. You never make do with members of your heist team. You never settle. You
Continue readingYes, football is kind of an arsehole, but we can’t really blame it for injuring our cricketers
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Continue readingBairstow versus Bravo: a tale of two fifties (and what they say about England and the West Indies)
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Continue readingExactly how many Tests will Jonny Bairstow survive as England’s number three?
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Continue readingWho celebrates hundreds more angrily – Jonny Bairstow or Virat Kohli?
4 minute readWhen Jonny Bairstow made his first test ton, he celebrated in such a way that no-one was left in any doubt that this was the Test hundred that his late father, David, never made. If you know the story of Jonny and David Bairstow – and an article like this
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