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After emerging in triumph from a Test and one-day series against Pakistan that they may wish to forget, England turned its attention on the Ashes tour to Australia this winter. The England selectors named the 16-man squad that they hope will be able to retain the Ashes in Australia for the first time in a [...]
A series that had delivered pulsating cricket and acrimony in almost equal proportions concluded at the Rose Bowl when England won the fifth match in the NatWest Series at the Rose Bowl by 121 runs to claim victory 3-2. The recent weeks of claims, and then counter claims, regarding spot-fixing and corruptions through Pakistan’s tour [...]
The one-day series that appeared to have everything was spared another sideshow when Yawar Saeed, the Pakistan team manager, denied that he was quitting on the eve of the final match of a drama-filled tour. It has been a gripping tale that has been played out over a number of days, which is building to [...]
The 50th one-day international played at Lord’s should have been a memorable occasion and it is unlikely that fourth NatWest Series match between England and Pakistan will be forgotten in a hurry. Whether it will be for the right reasons is another matter. To read the full blog: http://blogs.bettor.com/Pakistan-beat-England-at-Lords-a28388
Relations between the cricket authorities of Pakistan and England hit another low point when the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board accused England players of deliberately losing the third ODI at The Oval on Friday. In an interview on Pakistan television that seems can only fan the flames of what has become an incendiary tour [...]
A week may be a long time in politics but Somerset found out that it can be even longer in cricket. Somerset finished as runners-up to Nottinghamshire in the LV= County Championship on Thursday – having already filled the same spot in the Twenty20 competition earlier in the season – and they were beaten by [...]
Before he led Pakistan to victory over England in the 1992 World Cup final in Melbourne Imran Khan famously implored his team to “fight like wounded tigers.” Whether Shahid Afridi, the current one-day captain of Pakistan, is capable of quite the same level of rhetoric is debatable but at least he has stopped his side [...]
It would be stretching credibility to elastic proportions to claim that England’s seventh successive Twenty20 victory, over an insipid Pakistan team, was magnificent. At best it was another sign of England teams, across all formats of the game, which have either rediscovered, in Test matches, or developed, in the limited-over versions, the killer instinct. And, [...]
There have been times in the last eight days when cricket has seemed something of an irrelevance but England maintained the winning habit which could prove to be invaluable when they head to Australia this winter. Having wrapped up the Test series against Pakistan last weekend, England carried on the good work when they beat [...]
England wrapped up a 3-1 victory in their Test series with Pakistan at Lord’s with a thumping innings victory. But did anyone notice? The writing was on the wall by the end of the third day’s play when Pakistan left the field at 41-4 and still needing to score another 331 runs to avoid an [...]