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October 13, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Olly Stone will maybe be a fast bowler for England some of the time

< 1 minute readIt’s an absolute statement of fact that no-one remotely cares whether England win rain-reduced one-dayers against Sri Lanka. England fans care whether England have an England fast bowler playing for England though. In Olly Stone, maybe they sort of do. And maybe he’ll play a quarter or a third of

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September 21, 2018 England

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

2 minute readEngland 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 17, 2018 County cricket

Olly Stone is who we’re talking about this week

2 minute readWarwickshire’s Olly Stone bowled a bouncer and on the strength of that became the county player everyone’s talking about this week. In the 18th over, Stone dismissed Luke Wells and then the very next ball he bounced out Luke Wright. If you play for Sussex and you are a Luke

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