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Jos Buttler played his last First-Class game on 22nd October in a test match for England against Pakistan in Dubai – making just seven runs. A modest Ashes series and the re-emergence of Jonny Bairstow led to Buttler being dropped for the last match of the Pakistan series, and the tour of South Africa later […] READ MORE
England’s convincing 122-run victory completed a 3-0 victory in their ODI series against Sri Lanka. The performance epitomised England’s resurgence as a limited-overs team after their disastrous 2015 World Cup campaign. The team has batted with controlled belligerence and their bowling attack has sufficient variety to be dangerous in all conditions. England’s ODI Revival Anyone […] READ MORE
It looked a bleak start to the World Cup T20 competition with a crushing defeat against the West Indies in the opening Group One match. Three successive group victories followed, setting up a semi-final with the unbeaten New Zealand, but can England make the World T20 final? The opening defeat was hard to take for […] READ MORE
You don’t have to go too far back in time to find highly recognisable wicket-keepers behind the stumps of most of the Test nations. Think Gilchrist and Haddin for Australia, MS Dhoni for India, Sangakkara for Sri Lanka, McCullum for New Zealand, Prior for England and Boucher for South Africa. But in a relatively short space […] READ MORE
In the end it was brutal. Truly brutal. 100 runs off just 46 balls. Record-breaking Jos Buttler. Jos Buttler has endured a torrid spell with the bat in recent months, culminating in him being dropped for the third Test in the recent series against Pakistan. But the selectors kept faith in him for the change […] READ MORE
England's Middle-Order batsmen have had a poor series against Pakistan: what will change before the Sharjah Test? READ MORE
England Second Test Ratings vs Pakistan. Once again, England came agonisingly short, this time in forcing a draw, in the second Test in Dubai. READ MORE
Eleven England players have been given full central contracts by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), one fewer than in 2014/15. ODI and T20 captain Eoin Morgan and pace bowler Mark Wood have both been promoted to the elite group of English cricket while Gary Ballance, Chris Jordan and Chris Woakes – who were […] READ MORE
With the recent, short, two test series against New Zealand over and deemed a qualified success, all eyes are looking forward to the 8th July when England and Australia meet in the first Ashes test of the summer. Lots of talk in the media recently has been about the Australian side and how they are […] READ MORE
It is hard to judge what could possibly be Alastair Cook’s state of mind. At the beginning of what is to be one of the most important years in English cricket history, Captain Cook has it all to mull over. He has his own form to be taking care of; he doesn’t have a definite […] READ MORE
