Graeme Hick is getting a testimonial game for Worcestershire. I can’t remember who first labelled Hick as a flat track bully, but it stuck with me ever since. I guess for me he’ll be remembered as the player who destroyed county attacks with aplomb but who never quite cut the mustard at test level. [...]

Paul Collingwood has a chance to contribute to the fulfilment of his own prediction of a 3-0 England whitewash. With all around him falling like shafts of wheat in harvest season he stands perched on 1 not out at the close of play in the warm up match in Rawalpindi.
Say what you like [...]

“We’ll win 3-0″ - full story here

Duncan Fletcher extolling the virtues of Michael Vaughan as the greatest captain on the planet has encouraged me to write this post that has been knocking around in my skull for a while.
Good captaincy (by my own traditional definition) has forever been synonymous with tactical superiority, with mental dominance, and often with nuggety rearguard [...]

Duncan Fletcher is proclaiming Michael Vaughan as
‘the best captain in the world’
Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. It’s so subjective, but what about the timing of this proclamation. The day before the team fly to Pakistan??? The day after the Ashes win he could have got away with it but not at the [...]

Will the ICC Super Series take on greater meaning now that Ponting is Ashesless?
Surely nothing less than a resounding win in all 3 one dayers and the test will do anything but harm for his chances of retaining the captaincy despite the positive vibes circulating all around him right now.
I’m actually looking forward [...]

By all accounts every child in England now owns a spanking new Woodworm and will be committing the rest of their natural lives to playing cricket. The future of the game is assured because…. of England’s Ashes Heroes! Hurrah.
What tosh! I bought a tennis racquet when Jimmy Connors first won Wimbledon and it was [...]

Freddie and Jonesy have given us all a cracking demo on how to get the relatively new ball reversing like an Aussie at a press conference.
But let’s hark back a decade or two and remember with fondness the correct way to get the dulling nut dipping at pace into the right-handers pads, shiny side [...]