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The 10 most picturesque cricket grounds in Britain
With the cricket season fast approaching, these are the most beautiful venues that will be hosting matches this summer
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Thanks for everything Jonny Bairstow, but it is time for you to focus on white-ball cricket
We should remember Bairstow for the most brilliantly belligerent strokeplay of any England Test batsman since Kevin Pietersen
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Shoaib Bashir is the spinner England must back through to the Ashes
If any parallel is sought with what Bashir could be in the 2025/6 Ashes, then it would be with John Emburey in his early years
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Kuldeep Yadav’s delivery to dismiss Zak Crawley was the ball of the series
Yadav decimated England’s battling line-up with the type of bowling English cricket has shamefully avoided: left-arm wrist-spin
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England need a miracle to solve their problems and rescue the series against India
With senior batsmen misfiring and spinners lacking control, winning the fourth Test would make for the biggest achievement of Stokes’s reign
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India vs England third Test player ratings: 2/10 for Root, 3/10 for Stokes
England must bounce back in the fourth Test after a chastening outing in Rajkot
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Joe Root’s latest Bazball shot is the stupidest in English Test cricket history
Every run India score in their second innings will be a torment to Root, because he knows that he should still be batting
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England's Ben Duckett is a Test match opener sensation – and no one expected that
While not quite beating Gilbert Jessop's 122-year-old record, Duckett made a statement with fastest Test century by an Englishman in India
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Test cricket is much better now than 60 years ago
In 1964, beset by illness, MCC drew a five-Test series in India 0-0 – mercifully we do not have to suffer such dull feats of endurance now
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England must find way to continue developing talented young spinners after India series
A huge positive from the second Test was the impact of Hartley, Ahmed and Bashir – the young spin trio took 15 wickets between them
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Jasprit Bumrah’s scintillating performance blows the entire series wide open
In being able to reverse-swing both ways, so quickly and so indecipherably, Bumrah has world-class batsmen, like Joe Root, on toast
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Ollie Pope matches Kevin Pietersen and Graham Gooch with match-changing innings
In his 196 in the Hyderabad victory, England's No 3 combined the best shots of Kevin Pietersen and Joe Root
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For once, Ben Stokes’ captaincy was not very good
Ben Stokes was selfless to want his spinners to succeed but it came to England's detriment – and he should have given them more protection
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Without proper coverage on TNT Sports, we only get India's side of the story
After winning rights to the series late in the day TNT did not have time to implement their usual production and analysis plans
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The England tour of India you did not know about: the Over-60s World Cup
While Ben Stokes' men have a five-Test series to face, England's seniors will potentially play 11 games in 21 days if they make the final
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