It was not long after Joe Root sauntered out to bat at Nagpur in 2012, with a cheery “Eh up, lad, how’s it going?’ to his partner at the other end, Kevin...

The sarcastic applause from the Sophia Gardens faithful for the bowling change was rather a shock. I thought they quite liked me and I was only standing in as...

Once upon a time Jason Holder was the young kid on the block. As a teenager he played a walk-on part in the documentary Fire in Babylon , about the great...

Shoaib Bashir’s performance in the second Test match — seven wickets in the game at a notoriously difficult ground for spin bowling and a venue he had not...

It was, rather surprisingly, the first, but it certainly won’t be the last. Harry Brook’s first Test century in England was an absolute joy, but, at 25, he...

It was here at Trent Bridge two years ago where Bazball was born. Jonny Bairstow led the assault. After England had conceded 553 to New Zealand and then drawn...

The England management have not quite resorted to the small ads column to drum up interest from new-ball bowlers, but they could have done. “Vacancy: Opening...

A beaming Kavem Hodge spoke of his pride at scoring a maiden Test century but described facing Mark Wood bowling rockets of more than 90mph as “brutal”....

It was one of those excruciating post mortems after a day’s play where we — the Glamorgan county team, that is — were attempting to explain why the...

For the previous dozen years at home, England captains had been fortunate to call upon one and usually two of the greatest seam and swing bowlers produced by...