England
Time up for an Ashes foe: James Anderson to end 22-year England career
James Anderson’s legendary, record-breaking 22-year international career will end this year, bringing a close to one of Australia’s great foes ahead of next year’s Ashes.
- by Will Macpherson
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Lyon: We’d have won the Ashes 4-0 if I’d been fit
Nathan Lyon believes Australia would have won the 2023 Ashes series 4-0 if he hadn’t broken down with injury.
- by Ian Chadband
Aussie bowler infamous for crude graffiti declares interest in England defection
Daniel Worrall, a former Sheffield Shield quick best known for a crude sketch in 2014, could become the first player in 125 years to represent both Australia and England.
- by Vince Rugari
‘I hate batter’: England legend rails against cricket’s gender-neutral terms
BBC correspondent and former England player Jonathan Agnew says “it’s sad” the game now refers to all players as batters.
- by Jeremy Wilson
The English View
The Ashes
Ben Stokes’ Achilles heel: Passive batting against spin makes him a sitting duck
Just as Achilles had his heel, it is the one area of his game – his life? – wherein Ben Stokes is not his positive and proactive self: when he starts a Test innings against spin in India.
- by Scyld Berry
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Australian cricket
‘They basically rolled their eyes’: Cricket’s superpowers ignored a blueprint to save Tests
Australia, England and India were given a blueprint to save Test cricket last year. They left it on the shelf.
- by Daniel Brettig
‘Untruths’: Botham accused over cricket’s racism report
The author of the report which rocked English cricket has hit out at the legendary all-rounder and the ECB for failing to call him out on his comments.
- by Tom Morgan
Opinion
India
England’s humiliating Bazball loss proves they learnt nothing from the Ashes
Forget the Jonny Bairstow stumping. The reason England lost at Lord’s and Rajkot was because they gifted wickets away when the match was there for the taking.
- by Michael Vaughan
THE ENGLISH VIEW
Test cricket
Joe Root’s latest Bazball shot is the stupidest in English Test cricket history
Joe Root’s reverse-scoop at India’s most dangerous bowler, Jasprit Bumrah, wrecked England’s chances of winning this Test and this series.
- by Scyld Berry
The English View
Test cricket
England are a great chance in next Ashes – Australia are in danger of decline
The Australians run the risk of becoming a jaded, aged team by the end of next year. You only have to look to 2006/07 to see what the results of that can be.
- by Michael Vaughan
New details emerge of cricket commentator Peter Roebuck’s death
Former English cricketer Peter Roebuck was “in despair” and being arrested on suspicion of sexual assault when he died 13 years ago.
- by Sherryn Groch