The days when a batsman strode out before a match with just his bat and gloves and eased a few gentle half volleys into the advertising hoardings (to the chagrin of the advertisers at...
I walk down a quiet, jasmine-scented road in the early- morning sunshine and through the gates of a rambling villa, set in verdant hills, its pleasant, leafy garden spreading out on all sides with...
It takes two months for the groundstaff to prepare a test pitch. It takes half a minute for the captains to read it wrong. Sitting in the dressing room after his mid afternoon dismissal...
Two 37 year olds will play their last test match this week. Two left handers playing for two different countries on opposite sides of the world bonded by one mission: to achieve their Masters...
You can’t win a test in the first session, the saying goes, but you can certainly lose one. It is a theory that has been repetitively applied in this series. Look at the...
They are as baffling to bowl as they are to face but the plain old off-spinner has been rejuvenated by these two deliveries, one rather more legal than the other. The Analyst explains the...
There are several distinct ways of bowling fast. In this BBC video, two are illustrated. Mitchell Johnson’s dramatic slingshot style and Steven Finn’s alternative coil and spring method. Fast bowlers all find their...
(extracted from Who Wants to be a Batsman) I asked Mark Ramprakash, now after all his tribulations and triumphs England’s batting coach, which of the younger English batsmen had the ideal approach. ‘Joe...
The biggest transformation in England’s cricket during this Ashes series has been in their catching. In the three tests they won, 43 of the 60 Australian wickets they took were out caught. There have...
You need 20 wickets to win a test match. Or if you are England in this game make that 22. Two Australian batsmen were dismissed by no balls which, added to a couple of...
