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February 15, 2020 England / South Africa

How good a six was the sliced six in Moeen Ali’s 11-ball 39 against South Africa?

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August 8, 2019 England

Moeen Ali’s leaving

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May 22, 2019 England

Let us tell you about Moeen Ali from England’s World Cup squad

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February 6, 2019 England / West Indies

We’ve accidentally made the case for England to drop Moeen Ali

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January 8, 2018 Australia / England

Shoulda, coulda, woulda – five things England got wrong ahead of the 2017-18 Ashes

We were originally going to present this article as being the views of Captain Hindsight, but when we started to write it we realised that half of England’s problems were actually fairly easy to see in advance. So while some of what follows comes with the benefit of knowing how

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December 8, 2017 Australia / England

Moeen Ali to get into bowling rhythm by not bowling in warm-up match

Moeen Ali is the only member of the second Test team who will play England’s latest warm-up match. He will do so because a side strain at the start of the tour left him short of overs. He won’t bowl. England are presumably of the opinion that Moeen will be

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September 25, 2017 England / West Indies

Moeen Ali does some clean hitting

Mo mowed it. It was a day of increasing numbness to sixes and Batting Ali had the good sense to get in early when they still seemed important and the match was still in the balance. Others may have hit the ball further, but no-one lashed it quite so reliably

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August 9, 2017 England

England should think about playing their main spinner

When Moeen Ali was first labelled England’s second spinner, it was widely assumed that Liam Dawson must therefore be the first spinner. It stood to reason. However, Moeen supposedly remained the second spinner even when he was the only one of the two selected, which raises the possibility that Dawson

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July 31, 2017 England / South Africa

Moeen Ali, England’s second spinner, takes a hat trick

We’ve told you before how we once saw a story in the local paper where a woman had come second in some sort of vegetable growing competition despite being the only person to enter something in that particular category. The judges decided that her entry was only worthy of a

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July 11, 2017 England

The hundreds and five-fors rating – why Moeen Ali is England’s best player

Further to yesterday’s debate about the identity of England’s best player, here’s one possible way of rating them We made the point yesterday that people shouldn’t blindly accept that Joe Root is England’s best player because he only regularly contributes in one facet of the game. We then a touch

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