Stephen Fleming England Test Coach Role Begins In The T20I Dressing Room Stephen Fleming‘s first working weeks as the England Test coach will be spent inside a white-ball dressing room. The New Zealander landed in the United Kingdom on Monday 14 September for a trip of around two weeks and will join the England T20I […]
The England v Pakistan second Test moved on sharply during its second morning at Lord’s on Friday 28 August. England’s first innings ended after they resumed on 248 for 9, and Pakistan lost a wicket inside the first six overs of their reply. The Guardian’s over-by-over had England 266 for 9 in the 62nd over, […]
The Brydon Carse police investigation has moved beyond the night out England had hoped to file away as poor judgement. Derbyshire Police confirmed on Wednesday 26 August that they are examining allegations of an assault in Derby city centre, in connection with the arrest that cost the fast bowler his place in the squad for […]
Sonny Baker began Thursday 27 August at Lord’s, in England’s squad for the second Test against Pakistan, and ended it at Sophia Gardens with two wickets in his first over for Hampshire. Released before the toss in St John’s Wood, he was driven to Cardiff and substituted into a County Championship match already in progress. […]
Zak Crawley chose a conspicuous afternoon to play his best innings of the summer. While England’s top order was being taken apart by Mohammad Abbas at Lord’s, the former England opener was compiling an unbeaten 82 for Kent at Northampton, his highest County Championship score of the season. The runs were timely and fluent. They […]
Free-to-air Test cricket is being discussed more seriously than at any point since 2005, and for the first time there is a broadcaster willing to say so out loud. The Guardian’s Matt Hughes reported on Thursday 27 August that the England and Wales Cricket Board will offer more rights packages to free-to-air broadcasters in the […]
Yesterday’s cricket talking points were dominated by a single spell of seam bowling in north-west London, where Mohammad Abbas dragged Pakistan back into a series that had looked over inside three days at Headingley. Around it sat a police investigation, a broadcasting row that reached the Foreign Office, and a County Championship day that shifted […]
A Pakistan Sky Sports complaint turned the lunch interval on day one at Lord’s into something closer to a diplomatic incident. The Pakistan Cricket Board lodged a formal protest with the broadcaster after it aired an interview with Kasim and Sulaiman Khan, the sons of Imran Khan, the former Pakistan captain and prime minister who […]
England cricket culture now has a number attached to it. Stuart Broad says eight of the 30 centrally contracted men have been reprimanded or involved in an off-field incident, an assessment he and Jimmy Anderson delivered at Lord’s on Wednesday night at the unveiling of a joint portrait of the pair. The intervention carries weight […]
England were 36 for 3 inside the opening hour at Lord’s, the floodlights burning and Mohammad Abbas moving the ball back into the stumps at will. By the close of a truncated day one of the England v Pakistan second Test they had reached 248 for 9, a total that felt closer to a rescue […]
Josh Tongue says Joe Root‘s “robust conversation” with the England Test squad has landed “100%” as the second Test against Pakistan begins at Lord’s on Thursday. The fast bowler, who shared ten wickets on day one at Headingley, said the captain “made it clear what he expected” after a week in which off-field conduct, rather […]
Mitchell Starc has gone to the top of the ICC Test bowling rankings for the first time in his career. The Australia left-armer climbed two places to displace Jasprit Bumrah after a ten-wicket haul in the second Test against Bangladesh at Mackay, where his 6 for 12 and 4 for 39 delivered a win by […]
