Sunday, 17 February 2019

Third Test Notes: No-one born slow gets fast

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Pace bowling remains one of the game's great unknowables. There is mystery inherent within it, and very few men on earth can do what Mar...
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Monday, 4 February 2019

Second Test notes: Root Maths - The Head of the Snake; Holder's Ban

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The parsing of a player's stats in order to sustain a particular argument about their game has a name of quite longstanding: Root Maths....
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Monday, 28 January 2019

First Test notes: Moeen's Immaculate Disaster

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Moeen Ali is a poetic cricketer, a cricketer to watch, and almost everything he does is worth watching. When he has a bad Test, or a bad tou...
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Wednesday, 22 August 2018

Third Test Notes: Ishant Sharma Keeps Running In; The Conversion Of Jonny Bairstow

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Ishant Sharma was born in 1988. The Indian cricket team began that year by playing West Indies in Chennai, the final game of a four Test ser...
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Thursday, 16 August 2018

Second Test Notes: In the Flesh

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It was the first day of the second Test... Well it was the second day if you're being like that, but it was the first day on which there...
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Sunday, 5 August 2018

First Test Notes: Virat Breaks Bad; Root-mathing Rooty's Fifties; Worst Shot Award

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In Breaking Bad Season Three, Walter White, the high school chemistry teacher turned methamphetamine kingpin of New Mexico, is almost exact...
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Tuesday, 24 July 2018

Watching You Watching James Vince

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For hardened James Vince watchers, for the jittery acolytes of batting’s fragile beauty, his latest recall to the England team, this time fo...
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