ALASTAIR COOK joined an elite club when he passed 10,000 runs in Test cricket. It is a remarkable achievement which required skill, determination, longevity, freedom from injury and the ability to maximum his talent. But is Cook an all-time great batsman? When I tweeted that he isn’t, I was bombarded with responses claiming I was […]
MOHAMMED AMIR could make a remarkable return to Test cricket back at the scene of his Lord’s crimes — 2146 days after Pakistan’s spot-fixing storm. The left-arm quick has been named in his country’s 17-man squad for the first Test of a four-match series against England that begins at the home of cricket on July […]
THE Kevin Pietersen-England cricket saga is one of the longest running dramas in the world… And not just in sport. The South African-born batsman, 35, tore bowling attacks from all across the globe apart in his prime. From two fifties against old enemy Australia in the 2005 Ashes on his Test debut to a startling […]
ENGLAND head coach Trevor Bayliss has revealed Nick Compton is already facing the axe after a poor start to the summer’s Tests against Sri Lanka. The Middlesex batsman, 32, has flopped in the line-up against an average Sri Lankan bowling attack. And after only just keeping his place — for continuity’s sake more than anything […]
JAMES ANDERSON became the world’s best Test bowler yesterday and revealed how his friendship with Stuart Broad pushed him to the top. Almost exactly 13 years after his Test debut, the Lancashire swing bowler finally achieved his ambition of the No1 global ranking. He took over the mantle from his great mate Broad following an […]