There is something at once compelling and infuriatingly artificial about the T20 World Cup’s group stage. As the tournament favourites put their feet up or indulge in a friendly or two, we are treated to the slightly ignominious spectacle of eight sides fighting, with only days left until the leading nations’ entrance, for the chance…
England’s last two great Test victories have ended the same way. One of the world’s best fast bowlers charges in. Ben Stokes stands tall, crunching through cover point for four. The crowd goes wild. At Trent Bridge in 2022, just as at Headingly in 2019. But there the similarities end. During England’s implausible triumph against…
You could make an argument, and convincingly, that England’s top six would, individually, get into any other side in the world. Would any other country not be able to find a place for Jos Buttler? For Jason Roy in the powerplay? For world number 1 Dawid Malan? For Jonny Bairstow? They’d all take Ben Stokes…
In sport, there are good days, and bad days, and then there are mad days. One sunny Sunday in London may have given us the maddest of them all. Not many things can compete with a Wimbledon final, let alone the first fifth set tie break in the final. Yesterday the Cricket World Cup saw…
