Last Friday evening, a disproportionate number of English males lived out their ultimate fantasy. This had nothing to do with two sisters, an inexplicable increase in pheromones or a happy hour that lasted all night. It was because of two men playing cricket in Yorkshire.
From the moment Kevin Pietersen strong-armed his way into the one-day […]

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With Michael Vaughan making his County Championship return yesterday, and continuing the inauspicious form he showed against South Africa in being dismissed for just 10, it raises the question of whether he should be selected for England’s winter tours? Vaughan has expressed his desire to force his way back into the England side this winter […]

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9. Matt Prior - six catches and 45*, England v South Africa, 2nd ODI, Trent Bridge, 26th August 2008
“Having craved a wicketkeeper who averaged in excess of 40, England found the grass wasn’t necessarily greener on the other side. His butterfingered keeping and ham-fisted sledging started to rub people up the wrong way … “
So […]

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I’m baffled by the furore that ‘mintgate’ seems to have caused. Marcus Trescothick is only being honest in describing a practice that has gone on in county cricket for many years. Whether it is right or wrong, all the players know about it and all the umpires know it’s going on. What astounds me is […]

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