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May 24, 2010

Series preview: mountain to climb for Bangladesh

Bangladesh are slowly improving, but their experience is limited mostly to the dry roads of the sub-continent and the Caribbean. It’s hard to imagine them mustering much resistance in English early summer conditions.

May 21, 2010

Lazy Ashes reporting starts early

There’s an Ashes series looming on the horizon. Which is why the media are in a frenzy, turning out whatever tripe they can get their hands on. This time, they’ve started early.

May 17, 2010

England’s Twenty20 Flowering

It is less than 12 months since England’s humiliating defeat to Holland in the 2009 World Twenty20. Since then they have learnt from their mistakes and constructed a new side to be worthy champions of the 2010 tournament.

May 5, 2010

The Duckworth/Colly method

I had planned a glorious essay on the failings of the Duckworth/Lewis Method in Twenty20. But then I got bored, so you’ll have to make do with the following sardonic morsel.

April 29, 2010

World Twenty20 preview

It’s only 10 months since the last edition, but I am strangely exited about this tournament in a way that it’s impossible to be about the IPL right now. The format is lean and snappy, the cricket will be competitive and it’s genuinely hard to call this one, although I am going to have a go.

April 23, 2010

Cricket & the psychology of fear

Cricket is a game played mostly in the mind. No amount of technique and panache can compensate for the mental frailties that have reigned so tyrannically over potential throughout the years. It is the psychology of fear that makes Test cricket great.

April 19, 2010

Do England want Finn for Ashes?

Steve Finn has long been highlighted as a good international prospect, and the chance that came his way through injuries in Bangladesh has heightened his reputation. But have England already got him in mind for the Ashes?

November 16, 2009

England batsmen to blame for conceding 240?

South Africa scored a mammoth 240 in the 2nd Twenty20 International, yet England’s batsmen are being asked to answer for the failure of the bowlers

October 30, 2009

6 things England need to do to beat South Africa

South Africa are just about the best team in the world right now. England are hopeful, but in reality they have got their work cut out. Here’s what they have to do to overcome the odds.

October 29, 2009

Michael Vaughan mentions Jonathan Trott’s nationality

Jonathan Trott has played for England, but he is a South African. So why is so much fuss being made of Michael Vaughan’s comments about him celebrating a South African victory?

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