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Category: England

January 28, 2020 England

The Jos Buttler formula and the Ben Stokes toolkit – how ‘trust your defence’ and ‘play your natural game’ aren’t competing philosophies

5 minute readJos Buttler is a Test batsman who talks as if he needs to approach his innings in a certain way. Maybe taking a philosophy into the middle is counterproductive. What’s your natural game? Our natural game is a lot of tea, coffee and reading, a small amount of writing, maybe

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January 26, 2020 England

You probably want to talk about Mark Wood or something

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January 22, 2020 England

Joe Denly could become England’s Baron of Balls

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January 16, 2020 England / South Africa

Mark Wood is playing The Entertain Yourselves Test

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January 12, 2020 England

England are nicking all your best ideas and parroting them back to you

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January 9, 2020 England

Did you see Dom Sibley’s face when Zak Crawley palmed that catch straight up?

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January 7, 2020 England

Rory Burns and Dom Sibley could be one of the all-time great aesthetically displeasing opening partnerships

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January 3, 2020 England

Joe Denly is here to play a whole inconclusive career

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January 3, 2020 England

Yes, football is kind of an arsehole, but we can’t really blame it for injuring our cricketers

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January 2, 2020 England

Four-day Test matches diminish the epic scale that is the format’s greatest strength

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