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April 12, 2019 County cricket / England

Gary Ballance is making hundreds again and you’re going to have to take a position on that

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April 10, 2019 Australia / County cricket

Did Cameron Bancroft just say “the Durham County Cricket Club”?

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April 9, 2019 County cricket

We’re mostly talking about Sam Northeast this week

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April 5, 2019 India

How has Virat Kohli been dealing with his recent inability to lay bat on ball?

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April 4, 2019 County cricket

Stop what you’re doing and pay attention: County cricket is about to slightly start

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April 2, 2019 County cricket

As Cameron Bancroft becomes Durham captain, Mark Wood explains the hierarchy of potential captains

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March 26, 2019 England / India

Is Jos Buttler asking for a mankad?

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March 22, 2019 Australia

David Warner’s beard is probably worth talking about at least just a little bit

< 1 minute readDavid Warner looks like the top half of his head spent a year at home and the bottom half of his head spent a year in the literal wilderness. The top half of the head has been drinking frappuccinos and eating plenty of vegetables. The bottom half of the head

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March 21, 2019 India

Delhi Daredevils have become a great deal more risk-averse

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March 20, 2019 England / South Africa

Duanne Olivier says he wants to play for England now

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  1. King Cricket on Chapeau, New Zealand – not many teams come to Ireland and win a Test matchMay 30, 2026

    Bat first it is then. Thanks for pointing that out. A classic case of a sentence rewritten so many times…

  2. Ged Ladd on Chapeau, New Zealand – not many teams come to Ireland and win a Test matchMay 30, 2026

    I read the following summary blurb passage in the above article three times, before realising why it made no sense…

  3. King Cricket on Can the 1980s tell us anything about the first Test match of summer?May 28, 2026

    Made perfect sense from the outset. Ireland need Tests, teams touring England need meaningful tour matches to acclimatise, yet this…

  4. Rhys on Can the 1980s tell us anything about the first Test match of summer?May 28, 2026

    Well, New Zealand were 85/4 so I am not convinced we have seen this quite yet. Touring ireland as a…

  5. Tim on Can the 1980s tell us anything about the first Test match of summer?May 27, 2026

    What we can tell so far is that New Zealand are quite good. In one of the linked articles, APW…

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