Tim Gruijters’s back…

< 1 minute read Is better than it’s been in a while. Apparently. You may not know much about Tim Gruijters. In fact, you may not know much about Tim Gruijters at all. Gruijters plays for the Netherlands. Or at least he would do if he hadn’t been sent home from the World T20

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Jade Dernbach bowls two balls the same

< 1 minute read When a sweaty-palmed Jade Dernbach bowled a wide with West Indies needing seven to win off one delivery, it was easy to forget that his opening spell had been sort of all right. It’s not a big thing, but it’s definitely progress. Someone seems to have persuaded Dernbach that variations

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More Test cricket for South Africa

< 1 minute read That’s not a chant. There are too many syllables. You’d have to rush through the ‘Test cricket’ bit to make it work and Test cricket ain’t for rushing through. No, ‘more Test cricket for South Africa’ actually comes about because it looks like there is going to be more Test

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Should Jos Buttler bat at five?

2 minute read Let’s overlook all the trivial details, like the omission of England’s best Twenty20 batsman and the retirement of their best-ever Twenty20 bowler (one name in particular crops up very frequently in this list) and instead focus on whether Jos Buttler should emerge with England 26-3, 32-4 or 38-5. It might

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