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
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Life after Stuart Broad: What did England’s next lot of quick bowlers get up to this winter?
5 minute readJames Anderson and Stuart Broad made their debuts in their early 20s and then just carried on playing until they were middle-aged. This means the players we might ordinarily think of as constituting ‘the next generation’ are mostly now on the cusp of retirement themselves. England have however given Test
Continue readingIt’s a bit grim when Josh Tongue is talked up as the quick one
2 minute readIt’s not just that England have fielded five right-arm seamers in this Test, it’s that the one bowling 85mph is being lauded as the quick one. Where’s all the pace gone? It’s there a leak somewhere? Let’s pull back the carpet and see if there’s 5mph pooling somewhere under the
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2 minute readThere’s a lot of joshing around. We’re now going to try and help you stay on top of it all. Tongue Josh Tongue will play for England against Ireland this week. ‘Tongue lashing’ headlines await (although we’ve been quite disappointed how infrequently he’s been described as ‘slippery’ as this does
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