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What Ben Stokes, Jack Leach and Headingley 2019 tell us about Test cricket

England v Australia, third Test, day four It’s six or out… … It’s six! Jonathan Agnew, Test Match Special Have

August 14, 2019 Extras / Features

The greatest bits and pieces and cricketers of all time

At the time of writing, it looked rather like Lord’s was going to get its traditional Thursday start to a

August 6, 2019 Australia / England / Features

The cult of digging in: This is the almost impossible psychological trick the batsman must pull off when you want him to play a rearguard

Do you know the only way you can successfully ‘dig in’ as a batsman? Completely and utterly mindlessly. Any other

July 15, 2019 England / Features / New Zealand

Five bonkers moments from the 2019 Cricket World Cup final – but which was the most uniquely cricket?

2019 Cricket World Cup final, England v New Zealand Cricket is at its very purest and best when it’s completely

May 11, 2019 Afghanistan / Features

Can we pause for a moment and try and take stock of Mohammad Nabi’s ridiculous career?

Mohammad Nabi didn’t play for Afghanistan against Scotland last month. Nothing too unusual there. Nabi had been at the IPL,

April 6, 2019 Extras / Features / India

Our very favourite thing about Netflix’s Cricket Fever: Lasith Malinga lurking in the background of every scene like a highly conspicuous ghost

We’ve finished watching Cricket Fever, Netflix’s documentary series about Mumbai Indians’ 2018 IPL campaign. It’s good, and personal experience revealed

April 3, 2019 Features / India

What does your job have in common with playing for the Mumbai Indians in the IPL?

Yesterday we mentioned our grim office job at a company that was dying on its arse. It later occurred to

February 12, 2019 Extras / Features

Are you David Lloyd’s unoccupied hand when Nasser Hussain is answering a question? Because we are

Over time, we’ve become more and more fascinated with one of David Lloyd’s hands. It is the one that hangs

January 4, 2019 Australia / Features

Which of Australia’s three banned ball-tamperers is being the most annoying (and which of them is being the least annoying)?

The Tamperer was an Italian dance music act. They had a number one with Feel It. The most memorable element

December 27, 2018 Australia / England / Features / India

Australia were far and away the funniest cricket team in 2018 – but who was their MVP?

The story of international cricket in 2018 is really just all the stuff that happened with Australia. This seems a