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It ends for Rangana Herath the way it will end for all of us – sprawled on our faces in defeat
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Continue readingKeaton Jennings has a secret and he doesn’t want anyone reliant on free-to-air cricket coverage to uncover it
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Continue readingSam Curran was England’s second-choice pace bowler for this Test match and that seems pretty significant
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Ben Foakes: first look in Test cricket
< 1 minute readWe don’t believe you can draw meaningful conclusions from players’ debuts – but we report on them anyway. We have this thing where we reckon a chance is worth, on average, about 28 runs. Based on this, we believe it’s generally worth playing your best wicketkeeper in Test cricket because
Continue readingWatch the second Al Jazeera match fixing documentary in which (nameless) England cricketers are accused
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Continue readingOlly Stone will maybe be a fast bowler for England some of the time
< 1 minute readIt’s an absolute statement of fact that no-one remotely cares whether England win rain-reduced one-dayers against Sri Lanka. England fans care whether England have an England fast bowler playing for England though. In Olly Stone, maybe they sort of do. And maybe he’ll play a quarter or a third of
Continue readingShane Warne says Jos Buttler is a Houdini-esque escapologist
< 1 minute readThe very great thing about Shane Warne having a book out (ghosted by Mark Nicholas, of all people) is that he appears here, there and everywhere and talks his nonsense and we all get to marvel at how swiftly the man can form opinions and stick to them. Warne thinks
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