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Month: September 2024

September 4, 2024 England

But will Brendon McCullum get a literal new hat?

3 minute readBrendon McCullum has been given a new hat – the England white ball coach hat. What we want to know is whether this new role comes with a literal, physical new hat, because we’re kind of sick of that Cinch one. This is the Cinch hat. This is what Brendon

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September 2, 2024 England / Sri Lanka

Root’s runs, Gus Botham, Ollie Pope’s ‘leadership potential’ and Top Fernando Watch – an England v Sri Lanka second Test recap

3 minute readYou may have guessed that we didn’t see much of this one. But that’s okay – we can read a scorecard with the best of them. England won. It is 2-0. Here are some things that apparently happened… Joe Root one-ups himself Has Joe Root finally hit upon a way

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  1. Balladeer on Joe Root’s efforts definitively prove that England do/don’t need a spinner for the first Ashes TestNovember 13, 2025

    At least they're not a bit fast-medium. (checks descriptions of Atkinson, Tongue, Stokes in Cricinfo) oh God

  2. daneel on Joe Root’s efforts definitively prove that England do/don’t need a spinner for the first Ashes TestNovember 13, 2025

    Tour's off to a great start, I see.

  3. Tim on Joe Root’s efforts definitively prove that England do/don’t need a spinner for the first Ashes TestNovember 13, 2025

    It's all double bluff and mind games. Particularly the bit where Matthew Potts hit 25 off one over from Joe…

  4. King Cricket on Second chances, Average Joe and “the same sort of number three” | Ashes Nonsense Watch – Part 2November 13, 2025

    He really should rebrand as Mark Wouldn't.

  5. A P Webster on Second chances, Average Joe and “the same sort of number three” | Ashes Nonsense Watch – Part 2November 13, 2025

    I wasn't so naive to think Mark Wood would manage a whole Test without some sort of injury. I was…

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