The problems with India’s young batsmen

Some pull to make a statement, one pushes meekly. One’s feet resemble Johhnie Walker’s, another needs to stop resembling others

The class of 1998

England’s World Cup-winning U-19 players went on to have very different lives. Some of glory and Tests, others of loneliness and broken dreams

Butt determined to upset the odds

Pakistan captain Salman Butt is backing his team to carry on defying the expectations of others as they seek a series-squaring victory against England in the fourth npower Test at Lord’s.

No third man

Imran Khan and Javed Miandad started out as polar opposites but then settled into a marriage of convenience where each understood the other, perhaps better than others around them

Afridi: That’s all, folks

So, the Pakistan Test team’s brave new era under Shahid Afidi is due to finish two weeks after it begun. His batting in this match did suggest a (mad)man in a hurry

Long live Blowers!

My dear old thing: Henry Blofeld About this time last year, I remember reading an article by Michael Henderson suggesting that TMS commentator Henry Blofeld should be put out to pasture by the BBC. I didn’t agree with it then, and I don’t now. The great thing about the TMS commentary team is its variety

Pakistan the ludicrous

Good god this is fun.

Chappell: Flintoff for the Ashes

Well, now here’s something. Ian Chappell has mooted the suggestion that Andrew Strauss ought to consider bringing back a certain Andrew Flintoff for that series in Australia. What’s it called?

The other Pattinson gets his chance

It’s more than 100 years since two brothers played Test cricket for different countries.

Expensive wicket-takers

Bowlers with outstanding career strike-rates despite going for more runs an over than they would have liked, and others who might have wanted to trade miserliness for wicket-taking ability

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