T20 BLAST FINALS DAY FIRST SEMI FINAL: Northants 135-5 (Levi 63*; Patel 2-31) beat Birmingham 131-6 (Javid 51*; Willey 3-30) by five wickets at Edgbaston By Scott Hunt There was an eerie quiet around Edgbaston midway through the second innings. That was because the home crowd, who had come expecting to roar their Birmingham side [...]
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NORTHANTS STUN HOME CROWD TO DUMP OUT BIRMINGHAM IN SEMI’S
Posted in Cricket | Tags: Birmingham, Edgbaston, Finals Day, Hampshire, Lancashire, Northants, T20, T20 Blast
ASHES 2015: The Key Head-to-Head Battles
On Wednesday the time will come for the talking to stop and the cricket to start in what is without question the biggest and fiercest battle in cricket. The anticipation is building ahead of what should be an outstanding series, with the hopes of the English cricketing public raised by their swashbuckling approach to the [...]
Posted in Cricket Opinion | Tags: Alastair Cook, Ben Stokes, England cricket, Gary Ballance, James Anderson, Michael Clarke, Mitchell Johnson, Moeen Ali, Nathan Lyon, Paul Farbrace, Shane Watson, Steve Smith, Stuart Broad, The Ashes, World Cup
T20 is the reason for England’s bare spin bowling cabinet
Spin bowlers across the county circuit are putting their hands up and desperately trying to force their way into the England reckoning. England lost their recent Test series against Sri Lanka without a specialist spinner in the side and look set to enter the India series with Moeen Ali performing the spin role in the [...]
Posted in Cricket Opinion Pick of the Week | Tags: England, England cricket, Graeme Swann, James Tredwell, Lancashire, Spinner, T20 Blast, Test Match
‘The best I’ve ever played’: England fall short against Sri Lanka despite stunning innings from Lancashire’s Jos Buttler
Lancashire’s Jos Buttler produced what some are calling England’s greatest ever One-Day innings at Lords against Sri Lanka – an innings which couldn’t quite drag England to victory. Chasing a winning target of 301, England faltered and were well behind the rate until Buttler came to the crease and smashed the fastest One-Day hundred ever [...]
Posted in Cricket Pick of the Week | Tags: Alastair Cook, cricket, England, James Anderson, Jos Buttler, Kevin Pietersen, Lancashire, Matt Prior, Michael Vaughan, Old Trafford
England should pick Carberry in all forms of Cricket
Hampshire’s televised one run victory over Lancashire in the FLT20 quarter final hammered home one significant point about England’s cricket team. Why on Earth does it not include Michael Carberry? The openers demolition of Lancashire’s bowling on his way to achieving the rare feat of a T20 century was a joy to behold. Carberry [...]
Cautious Cook must change his ways
Alistair Cook is relatively new to the England captaincy and came under fierce criticism at Headingley for his tactics in the second test against New Zealand. Cooks decision not to enforce the follow on and then the pace at which his side proceeded to bat at brought widespread confusion and almost lead to England drawing [...]
Carberry, not Compton should be Englands Ashes Opener
Nick Compton is under increasing pressure for his place at the top of Englands test match batting order. On the face of it, this seems unreasonable given his back to back centuries in New Zealand just a couple of tests ago. However with the return of Kevin Pietersen on the horizon and the form of [...]
Posted in Cricket Opinion | Tags: England cricket, Joe Root, Michael Carberry, Nick Compton, Test Match
Inconsistent Broad lucky to keep his place
Stuart Broad took the plaudits for his seven wicket performance in the second innings at Lords against New Zealand. Rightly so, it was a terrific performance. We all know Broad is capable of such displays, he has done it before. However they do not happen often enough. Broad took the man of the match [...]
England vs. New Zealand: 1st Test Review
A test match decided in four days normally indicates that one side have dominated the opposition and finished them off quickly. Well that was certainly not the case in the first test at Lords between England and New Zealand which proved to be an extremely close encounter. Having won the toss and elected to [...]
Posted in Cricket | Tags: Alistair Cook, England cricket, James Anderson, Kevin Pietersen, Test Match, Trott
England vs. New Zealand: Test Series Preview
The first test match of the English summer starts at Lords on Thursday, with tourists New Zealand looking to build upon their unlikely draw in their home series in the winter. England were disappointing in New Zealand and will want to put a marker down for the summer showpiece of the Ashes. Kevin Pietersen [...]
Posted in Cricket Pick of the Week | Tags: Bell, England cricket, Kevin Pietersen, New Zealand, Trott
