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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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December 31, 2019 New Zealand

Neil Wagner: Lord Megachief of Gold 2019

3 minute readOur annual Lord Megachief of Gold award is the highest honour in cricket. The title is recognition of performance over the previous calendar year. Here are all the winners.

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December 24, 2019 Australia / England / New Zealand / South Africa

The real highlights of the 2019 Boxing Day Tests

4 minute readFor clarity and brevity: yes, this is the through-the-Boxing-Day-Tests thread. This article will (probably) be updated (semi) regularly as the South Africa v England and Australia v New Zealand matches progress.

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