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October 30, 2023 England / Features

The chaotic way England dropped Jason Roy gave a powerful message to the rest of the team

7 minute read Sometimes it’s not about the logic of dropping one player in favour of another; it’s about the message you send to everyone else who hasn’t (yet) been dropped. England talk about playing with conviction, yet coach Matthew Mott and captain Jos Buttler have demonstrated little but uncertainty with this 2023

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September 18, 2023 England

No-one’s making Jason Roy stronger here with the way they’ve gone about this

5 minute read Ain’t no bad news like the retraction of previously issued good news. Jason Roy had already given his relieved response to being included in England’s World Cup squad when he was later excluded from it. How are you feeling since the change of heart, Jase? Not great, we’d wager. Squad

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September 21, 2022 County cricket

No Alex Hales, no Jason Roy, but one Ollie Pope – the County Championship careers towards its conclusion

3 minute read Runs don’t win you a two-innings cricket match, but by Godfrey Evans, they sure as Shivnarine Chanderpaul help. The Surrey v Hampshire County Championship title run-in feels like it’s shed a bit of tension after Ollie Pope’s 136 and Hampshire’s 57 all out in the penultimate round of matches. We

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September 2, 2022 England

Dropping Jason Roy means England have finally achieved their 2007 goals

2 minute read It was coming. It’s happened. England have named their T20 World Cup squad and they’ve dropped Jason Roy. In keeping with this website’s policy of actively spurning all the audience-attracting potential of writing about a topic when it’s “hot,” we said pretty much all we want to say about this

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August 10, 2022 England / Features

Where are Jason Roy’s foundations? Do white ball specialists need more time in the middle?

5 minute read Jason Roy isn’t at his best. He’s not even in a place where he can try and bat at his best. How can a white ball specialist like him get back into good batting form these days? Let’s start in the obvious place with a story about a speed skater.

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August 23, 2019 Australia / England

Which was the purest awful dismissal in England’s 67 all out?

2 minute read England v Australia, third Test, day two

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July 11, 2019 Australia / England

Who had the strongest emotional reaction to Jason Roy’s dismissal?

4 minute read 2019 Cricket World Cup semi-final, Australia v England

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June 8, 2019 Bangladesh / England

Was Jason Roy’s the greatest World Cup hundred celebration?

2 minute read 2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 12, Bangladesh v England

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May 26, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Jason Roy from England’s World Cup squad

< 1 minute read Jason Roy is originally from South Africa and he hits the ball very hard. The similarities with Kevin Pietersen don’t end there either – he also has the same shaped mouth. There the similarities pretty much do end. The noteworthy ones anyway. There are two versions of Jason Roy and

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January 16, 2018 India

Remember when Virat Kohli was a limited overs cricketer?

2 minute read Nick Hoult wrote the case study we couldn’t be bothered writing in The Telegraph yesterday. The short version is that between now and England picking their first Test squad to face India in August, Jason Roy will have at most one first-class match in which to make his case for

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    Even more disappointing that the West Indies haven’t picked likely lad Dominic Drakes for this series, missing its own Drakes…

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