Pakistan have put their first-Test collapse down to the weather. Umar Gul, the tourists’ bowling coach, said a Yorkshire cold snap left his fast bowlers unable to execute at Headingley, where England won by an innings and 103 runs. The Pakistan Headingley weather explanation was offered at Lord’s on Tuesday, two days before the second […]
A Babar Azam Lord’s Test return is all but settled, two days out from the second Test against England, after a net session Pakistan’s staff called “positive”. The captain has been sidelined by a finger injury picked up in the West Indies and aggravated when he was struck on the same finger in the tourists’ […]
Joe Root hacked off — the England captain’s own words at Lord’s on Tuesday, two days out from the second Test. He came to talk cricket and opened instead on Brydon Carse, the fast bowler dropped from the squad after being filmed in handcuffs in Derby. Carse, 31, was celebrating Durham’s win on Saturday night […]
The newest Joe Root record began with an email from Lichfield. Charles Dennett watched Root and Jordan Cox put on 150 together at Headingley last week and was struck by the sort of thought that keeps cricket supporters up at night: surely nobody in Test history has shared a decent stand with more different team-mates […]
The Leeds United player ratings from the City Ground read like a defensive audit passed with distinction, and it is the club-record goalkeeper who leads them. James Trafford was given 8/10 and man of the match by the Yorkshire Evening Post’s Lee Sobot after a commanding competitive debut for the Whites, capped by a clean […]
Australia Test pitches have rarely been examined as closely as they are this week. The Mackay surface on which the second Test against Bangladesh finished inside two days had, ESPNcricinfo reported on Tuesday, just 3.5mm of grass on it — and is still set to be rated highly by the ICC. It was the third […]
The England v Pakistan second Test week began not with a team sheet but with a statement of intent about behaviour. Two days out from Thursday’s start at Lord’s, Joe Root was due to address the weekend’s Derby incident involving one of his contracted seamers, ESPNcricinfo reported. England go into the match one up in […]
Michael Vaughan Brydon Carse reaction: the former England captain has called for a punishment that “sends a shiver down the whole England cricket team” after the Durham seamer became the latest contracted England player caught up in a late-night incident. He was speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, hours after Carse was withdrawn from the […]
Eight seconds of phone footage outside a Derby pub has done what four days of cricket at Headingley could not: it has made the England cricket drinking culture the only story in the game. Brydon Carse, in handcuffs, surrounded by police officers, with Durham team-mate Matthew Potts stepping in to reassure him and Ben Stokes […]
Brydon Carse has been dropped by England for the second Test against Pakistan at Lord’s, with Hampshire seamer Sonny Baker called into the squad, after the independent Cricket Regulator confirmed it will investigate the fast bowler’s conduct outside a bar in Derby on Saturday night. Brydon Carse dropped: what the ECB said The ECB announced […]
Rishabh Pant has broken Adam Gilchrist’s record for the most sixes in Test cricket, Rediff reported on Monday, a day after the India wicketkeeper was forced off the field by a blow to the wrist in Colombo. The Rishabh Pant sixes record was set in a second-Test innings that ended with India declaring on 503 […]
Rishabh Pant has broken Adam Gilchrist’s record for the most sixes in Test cricket, Rediff reported on Monday, a day after the India wicketkeeper was forced off the field by a blow to the wrist in Colombo. The Rishabh Pant sixes record now stands above the Australian’s mark, set in a second-Test innings that ended […]
