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Who had the strongest emotional reaction to Jason Roy’s dismissal?
2019 Cricket World Cup semi-final, Australia v England
Continue readingWas Jason Roy’s the greatest World Cup hundred celebration?
2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 12, Bangladesh v England
Continue readingLet us tell you about Jason Roy from England’s World Cup squad
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
Continue readingRemember when Virat Kohli was a limited overs cricketer?
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
Continue readingWe’re not going to write about Jason Roy
Just read last week’s Wisden piece again with this innings in mind. Jason Roy played five first-class matches last season.
Continue readingAB de Villiers plays decisive innings to win first T20 for England
A real man of the match performance from AB de Villiers won England the first T20 international against South Africa. The greatest sportsman who ever lived ate up 58 balls in making an unbeaten 65. If the innings hinted at a two-paced pitch, England’s batsmen only noticed one of them
Continue readingIf Jason Roy is “due” what will happen to all those runs he saved up?
Just because someone’s due, it doesn’t mean anything’s actually going to happen any time soon. Trust us on this. Referring to Jason Roy, Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur alluded to the concept of dueness, saying: “We had a discussion in the bus this morning. I was particularly worried that Roy hadn’t
Continue readingJason Roy wants England to be worse at one-day cricket
It’s happened again. Jason Roy wants to do things that will make England worse at cricket. Ahead of the World T20, Roy appeared to lose sight of his role at the top of the order, which we likened to tinder. He said he wanted to give himself time, apparently unaware
Continue readingWhy Keaton Jennings’ Test debut is also great news for Jason Roy
Keaton Jennings will make his Test debut against India and if there’s one aspect of this news that everyone’s talking about, it’s the fact that the Durham opener has two surnames and no first name. England are not unaware of this and they will no doubt harbour concerns about the
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