The Summer of 1939 A short book review on The Final Innings by Christopher Sanford. Christopher Sanford’s wonderful book details the foreboding English cricket summer of 1939.The author makes use of unpublished memoirs and diary entries to describe the unfolding cricketing season of this most portentous of summers. Britain stood on the brink of war. […] READ MORE
England Cricket vs West Indies Summary England Cricket played a successful role as hosts it has to be said. Cricket fans were oscillating between two varied emotions and feelings in the past one month- elation and weirdness. Elation simply because post the three lockdown that ruled out any cricket. Finally live sport returned with a […] READ MORE
Are Rory Burns and Dom Sibley The Future? Jason Roy. Alex Hales. Sam Robson. Adam Lyth. Mark Stoneman. The list continues. English opening batsmen in the last few years have come and gone. Rory Burns and Dom Sibley have made a great start to their test match careers as England’s current openers. But what separates […] READ MORE
England v West Indies Series Summary England v West Indies. A series that offered so much. Yet, the visitors fizzled out after putting in a superb performance at the Ageas Bowl. After an absence of cricket in a vacant sporting summer, we have now completed the first series of a congested schedule ahead. England fought back […] READ MORE
International cricket made it’s return after the Covid-19 pandemic as England hosted the West Indies in a three match Test series. It grabbed the attention of cricket lovers in both nations as well as neutrals alike, as the cricket loving world had been starved of the sport for over two months. As with other sporting […] READ MORE
England Bounceback To Win The Wisden Trophy England have bounced back from 1-0 down to win the three-match #Raisethebat Test series and the Wisden Trophy 2-1. They completed back to back victories over West Indies. It was Stuart Broad who shone brightest as the hosts ran out winners by 269 runs. Broad picked up his […] READ MORE
Rain Rejoices Over The Emirates Old Trafford Heavy overnight rain and more rain throughout the day prevented any play on day four of the third and final Test, between England and West Indies at Emirates Old Trafford. The pivotal Test match will now be decided on the last day. England needs a win to regain […] READ MORE
Stuart Broad Fires To Leave England In Command Stuart Broad took all six West Indies wickets that fell on day three to leave England on the verge of a series victory over in the deciding Test at Emirates Old Trafford. He wasn’t seen for much of the morning session. But, when Stuart Broad was finally […] READ MORE
Stuart Broad Stars To Put England In Charge Again. England collapsed and needed a rallying cry. And, of course, Stuart Broad stars again. It was veteran seam bowlers Stuart Broad and James Anderson who once again showed their class. As a result, England took huge strides towards winning the series on day two of the […] READ MORE
After yet another match winning display, Ben Stokes is now without a doubt the talisman of this young English cricket team. Already a national hero in England following his 2019 World Cup heroics and record-breaking innings against Australia in last year’s Ashes series, Stokes is on course to surpass other English cricketing all-rounder legends Ian […] READ MORE