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Tag: Joe Denly

July 15, 2020 England

Looking back on the rarely-that-highs and not-especially-lows of Joe Denly’s Test career

Joe Denly is an unbelievable Test cricketer. You’ll note that we’re saying ‘is’ and not ‘was’ there. That’s because of the specific way in which Joe Denly is/was unbelievable. Sometimes you only need to do so much to get the gig. And sometimes you only need to do so much

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June 7, 2020 England / Features

England’s four weirdest Test picks of the last 20 years

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January 22, 2020 England

Joe Denly could become England’s Baron of Balls

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January 3, 2020 England

Joe Denly is here to play a whole inconclusive career

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December 3, 2019 England / New Zealand

The best nanosecond of Joe Denly’s unbelievable dropped catch

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August 21, 2019 Australia / England

Did you see… Joe Denly’s starfish catch?

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September 21, 2018 England

Two of those England Test selections are just about weird and surprising enough to talk about

England have named their Test squad for the tour of Sri Lanka. Rory Burns is in, Olly Stone is in, and – a mere 10 years after we tipped him – so too is Joe “No Pants” Denly. The Burns selection isn’t really worth commenting on, so let’s concentrate on

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April 15, 2012 County cricket / England

King Cricket’s county players to watch in 2012

Right, let’s get this over with. First, let’s restate the qualification criteria: Qualified to play for England No established internationals Youngish Playing in the first division of the County Championship Think that’s it. There might be other things. Who knows? Presumably us, but we don’t like to scrutinise the workings

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September 22, 2009 Australia / England

How Joe Denly got to play for England

This isn’t specifically about Joe Denly. He’s just the example. It’s about being a young English cricketer and what you have to do to play for the national side. It’s also about Australia’s wicketkeeper, Tim Paine. Paine and Denly are just starting their careers and have been opening the batting

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September 4, 2009 England

England cricketers playing football

We know that many of you spent your childhoods betting how many quail eggs your servants could find in half an hour, but we went to a normal school. We played football pretty much every day for five years and never once got injured. When England’s cricketers get a football

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