England’s recent victory in the second Test Match against South Africa has been applauded for a number of reasons, injecting a newfound sense of belief in a team that appeared to be mired in crisis. Injury problems, an illness that had run through the squad, and the disappointing run of away form in Test cricket […]
For English cricket fans, it is hard to remember a more memorable summer than 2019. A scintillating World Cup victory on home soil, moments of outstanding individual brilliance from the likes of Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer and a very competitive Ashes series will all go down in the history books. The failure to regain […]
Rorke’s Drift. Dunkirk. Headingley 2019. The sportswriters stopped short of comparing the fourth day of this Ashes Third Test to Thermopylae, but the military analogies and journalistic grandiosities were out in full force. Ben Stokes, our carrot-topped Leonidas, hogged the back pages, and in many instances the front pages, after an astonishing performance with the […]
The return of the prodigal son is one of the best known of Jesus’ parables and is constantly referenced throughout society. When one looks past the moral of forgiveness, however, there is always a sympathy for the good son who has stuck by his father through thick and thin, while his brother is off living […]
Each time an Ashes series beckons, there always seems to be someone big in the world of Australian cricket who boasts of an impending five-nil whitewash. This time it has fallen on Jim Maxwell, the renowned commentator. Much to England’s shame, the last two out of three times they have toured Australia, this has been […]
In the build up to the Cricket 50-Over World Cup, Durham, and former England captain Paul Collingwood has described the ECB selectors decision to omit Ben Stokes from the England squad as “ridiculous” and claimed that Stokes “could’ve won three or four games by himself.” Following the decision to leave Stokes out of the squad, […]