All posts tagged "Sri Lanka"
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Features and Columns
/ 8 years agoMartin Johnson column – Touring used to be fun – ask Gower about it!
One of the great bonuses of playing cricket for England is getting to see all those new, exciting and exotic places....
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International News
/ 8 years agoBird’s batting costs him a place in the Australia Test squad
(Photo: Action Images) By Harvey Burgess Jackson Bird has been left out of the Australia Test squad to face South Africa...
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/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Batty’s call-up sending out right message
There would have been a few eyebrows raised last Friday when the announcement came through that Gareth Batty had been selected...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Morgan’s no-show will cost him trust of Strauss
The decision of Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales not to tour Bangladesh prompted one columnist to evoke the spirit of Mr...
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International News
/ 9 years agoIt was a battle that Tres simply could never win
Ten years on, Peter Hayter looks at the brave call by Marcus Trescothick to face his demons and leave the international...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Boards need to make the call not players
England‘s cricketers have been assured that, should they choose not to travel to Bangladesh next month for the first leg of...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Ranking system is in need of change, or scrap it
To be the best has to incorporate a worthiness, which is why the International Cricket Council should resurrect plans for a...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoVoges to miss rest of season with hamstring injury
ADAM Voges will miss the rest of the County Championship season after being asked to rest a hamstring injury. Voges, 36,...
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International News
/ 9 years agoZimbabwe running scared but a dose of meritocracy would serve them so well
By Tim Wigmore Zimbabwe’s performances in their two Tests against New Zealand were actually less gruesome than many had envisaged, and...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Remember, fifth day gave us Botham’s ‘miracle’
England‘s victory in the third Test at Edgbaston was a shot in the arm for five-day Test cricket, but it was...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoInjury ends season for Overton
Somerset bowlerJamie Overton has suffered a stress fracture of the back and will miss the remainder of the 2016 season. Overton...
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News
/ 9 years agoEngland basking in Knight’s new dawn
Adam Collins speaks to the England captain about a brilliant summer and a challenging future Six starts, six wins. Automatic qualification...
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International News
/ 9 years agoEngland selectors raise a few eyebrows with Ballance selection
England have recently announced their squad to face Pakistan in the first test match of the series against Lord’s on the...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – A day can be a long time in cricket, ask Sunil
I was reading the other day an article about the use of “guided missile microtechnology” to measure the effect of fast...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – This was never about scoring points!
What a thriller that was on Tuesday, and one thing is for certain – nobody on the pitch was thinking that...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Sixes are a bonus but Plunkett’s pace is the real plus
It is unlike me to become sentimental, but with England tying the one-day international at Trent Bridge the other night, I...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Lancashire – 2003 ECB National League Division Two champions
By Neil Fissler Kyle Hogg admits that West Indian star Carl Hooper was a major influence on Lancashire winning promotion into...
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International News
/ 9 years agoShaminda Eranga banned from bowling in international matches
Sri Lanka‘s Shaminda Eranga has been banned from bowling in international cricket after his action was reported during the second Test...
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International News
/ 9 years agoAll eyes to the future for England and Bayliss
Chris Stocks turns his attention to England‘s looming one-day battle with Sri Lanka England’s upcoming five-match series against Sri Lanka will...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Malan’s earned call but why only one game?
England have announced their squads for the upcoming ODIs and single T20 against Sri Lanka, and it looks like a very...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – There’d be no fun if Geoffrey’s mum was at No.11
There are one or two instances in which Wisden’s claim to be cricket‘s unimpeachable bible fails to stand up to serious...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Finn must eye up the prey and hit the deck hard
There is another game Steven Finn appears to be playing alongside cricket at the moment – Snakes and Ladders. Finn, a...
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International News
/ 9 years agoWe Test lovers must fight to prove KP’s no Mystic Meg
Peter Hayter launches an impassioned defence of the five-day game after the latest attack from the former England captain Don’t it...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Thank God… it’s not like Nineties anymore
It wasn’t just in the international set-up that there were ups and downs in the 1990s. The Nineties era was almost...
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International News
/ 9 years agoEngland lost throughout the 1990s – because rivals were the all-time greats
Emma John knew nothing but defeat as a fan of 90s England. But were Atherton’s Army really that bad? It can...
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