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...

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...

There was a special moment shortly before play began at Trent Bridge when Stuart Broad, 353 days into his retirement from professional cricket, unveiled a...

There was a very good reason why Ben Duckett did not hit his first ball of the day for four: he simply could not reach it, resulting in that Test-match...

It is a measure of a good player that they can score runs when searching for their best form. Ollie Pope was looking for it in Nottingham, having ridden his...