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Are you a left-arm Chinaman? (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
In his recent autobiography, Michael Vaughan has admitted that, during the 2005 Ashes celebrations, the entire England team rocked up to 10 Downing Street and were disappointed by what they saw. They immediately identified the key problem: no booze. The infamous all-night bender, followed by tipsy open-topped bus fiesta had rather given the impression that drink was not wanting. But, after stumbling...
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The World of Cricket (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
So after a long summer of cricket that included the Ashes Test Series, the Hectic 7 match One Day Series between Australia and England and then the ICC Champions Trophy tournament England will be hopping on a plane and jetting off to South Africa for a long tour that will last from the 1st November to the 18th January. The squads were announced back earlier this month and there were a few surprises...
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Cricket Forever (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
England announced their squads to tour South Africa in November. The ‘headlines’ have been generated by the omission of Steve Harmison. His lack of form and maybe commitment on tour means that this is not really a surprise. Geoff Miller this lunch time made it fairly clear (to me anyway) that Harmison would never be picked again. His words said the opposite of course but he also mentioned...
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Danny Pugsley (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Fast bowler Steve Harmison and spinner Monty Panesar have been dropped from the England and Wales Cricket Board's list of centrally contracted players. All-rounder Andrew Flintoff, who has retired from Tests and is recovering from knee surgery, has an increment contract rather than a full deal. Matt Prior, Graeme Swann and Graham Onions all step up from increment contracts to full, 12-month deals....
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Ian Bell's century helps put Warwickshire into a winning position against Sussex at Hove.
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Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
A round-up from the latest matches in the Pro40 as Ian Bell hits a century and Wayne White stars with bat and ball
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Ian Bell's century against Derbyshire keeps Warwickshire in with a chance of the Pro40 Division Two title.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Persisting with kickabouts has forced England into tinkering with their line-up again Joe Denly should have been opening the batting for England this afternoon in the first of seven one-day internationals. Instead he will be recovering from the twisted knee he suffered during a kickabout game of football in training yesterday. It was a foolish and frustrating injury and an embarrassed Andrew Strauss...
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@wedwardes - wine for spice etc. (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Once again an England cricket has been injured playing football according the The BBC England opener Joe Denly could miss Friday's opening one-day international against Australia after suffering a left knee injury playing football. England's tradition of playing football before matches has been criticised in the past. Matt Prior suffered a back spasm while playing football during England's warm-up...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
The Kent opener is hoping his county finals experience will help him in his England Twenty20 debut Joe Denly, like Jonathan Trott before him, is a reminder that the advantages of experience are sometimes overplayed. The Kent opener, who is preparing to make his Twenty20 international debut for England against Australia at Old Trafford on Sunday, was the only uncapped player in the one-day squad announced...
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Kevin Drum - Mother Jones (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
As long as I'm writing about British sporting clubs today, how about some cricket blogging? A few weeks ago I was emailing with Alex Massie about something or other, and along the way suggested that he should write more about cricket. "I'm pretty much agog," I wrote "at the idea that you have a sport that frequently ends in a draw even though it takes five days to play ." That's...
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Different Shades of Green (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Even fewer people have credited Ian Bell with being a perceptive cricketing sage than with being a Test class number three batsman, but when he warned at the end of the first day at The Oval that people shouldn't pronounce judgement on England's first innings total until Australia had batted, I decided that he had a point. A fairly obvious and trite one, granted, but a point nevertheless. I've been...
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Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Ian Bell and Churchillian rhetoric do not tend to belong in the same sentence - in fact, chinchillian would be an adjective more befitting of such a mousy character - but his 72 provided much needed evidence of a batsman willing to tough it out
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Batsman Ian Bell says England can still post a challenging total despite losing eight wickets on day one of the decisive Ashes Test at The Oval.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
• Warne launches another attack on England batsman • 'Up to now Collingwood has been looking after himself' Shane Warne has again singled out Paul Collingwood for criticism ahead of the Ashes decider at The Oval, accusing the middle-order batsman of "hiding". The former Australia spinner famously ridiculed Collingwood's MBE for his part in England's series triumph in 2005. The...
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