Will Macpherson
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Andrew Strauss was an infamous Shane Warne victim on a number of occasions. This story is great
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Love this Pakistan team, love Pakistan cricket. Incredible contribution to the tournament, and a seriously exciting young team.
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Jonny Bairstow's last five innings: 136 (92), 162 (157), 71* (44), 106 (140), 114* (145). 589 runs from 578 balls at an average of 196.
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Virat Kohli saying he’s lost for words, but able to articulate absolutely what’s just happened, ball by ball. Really is one of a kind.
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Jonny Bairstow finishes the series with 394 runs from 328 balls.
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Jasprit Bumrah's spell reads like a tennis score: 6-3-6-2.
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Sure, it's worrying that West Indies can't find a shirt sponsor. But these logo-less whites are a thing of rare beauty
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Jos Buttler on Ben Stokes: "if he batted like that in a Test match he'd drop himself" 😂.
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Don't worry, India fans, you've got a five-match T20 series against Australia starting on Thursday in Vizag to get your revenge.
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We are getting Full Virat this tournament: the looks, the words, the aggression, the runs.
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Ireland’s Josh Little signed by Gujarat Titans for 4.4 crore (approx 450k). Fantastic news and well earned.
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You do have to respect England men's cricket for its total commitment to not being good at both red- and white-ball cricket at the same time.
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Ben Stokes at lunch: five red bulls, 10 cigs, two pints.
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In the final session of the highest-scoring five-day Test of all time, 40-year-old Jimmy Anderson bowled a spell of 5-4-1-2 that included 29 successive dot balls 🤯.
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Within five minutes of his retirement from international cricket, Sky have announced that Eoin Morgan has joined their commentary team for all England men’s white games this summer.
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Kane Williamson (laughing): "I don't know how they won it, was it boundaries or something?".
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This look is absolutely sensational from Mohammad Rizwan
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Jimmy Anderson returns to the top of the ICC Test bowling rankings. The best bowler in the world is 40.
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Stuart Broad's final ball batting in Test cricket: six. Stuart Broad's final ball bowling in Test cricket: wicket.
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Harry Brook makes 317, and his Test average rises from 53.7 to 62.5.
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England 300-2 from 52 overs with Harry Brook, Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow to come
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A proper hall of fame opening spell from Jasprit Bumrah, when his team most needed it.
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Siraj and the rest of the Indian team's celebration of Ashwin's hundred rather debunks Tim Paine's theory that none of them like him, doesn't it?.
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In Jonny Bairstow's three Test hundreds this year, he's come in at 36-4, 48-4 and 56-3 (chasing 299). Decent times to stand up.
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Mohammed Siraj with his tail up is one of cricket’s great sights right now.
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Shane Warne was voted one of Wisden's five cricketers of the (20th) century. He was only just over halfway through his career when that century ended. Just crazy good.
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Joe Root has 10 centuries since the start of 2021. Six of them are 150+.
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Jasprit Bumrah has figures of 4-2-6-4 and the ball is white.
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Very cool for Chris Woakes and Mark Wood to finish that game off. They are best mates, are classy, willing cricketers who have had many moments wondering if they would play Test cricket again.
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Special hat-trick for Jonny Bairstow: successive 50+ partnerships with Stokes, Foakes and Woakes 😍.
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Joe Root is about 40 shy of 8000 Test runs. None of the 10 Englishman with 7500+ have a better average than him and the others have all played more Tests. He's only just 30 and is also England's ODI 🐐. It's a crazy world, but I reckon he's massively under-appreciated.
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Ben Stokes's commitment to drama and Pakistan's commitment to drama make this an absolutely toxic combination.
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Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow's unbeaten partnership was 269 in 315 balls.
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Jimmy Anderson in Asia: . 23 matches.66 wickets.28.98 average.2.62 econ. Only does it on green seamers in England, though.
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Perhaps the most chilled shot ever, from Stevie Eskinazi
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Amid the carnage and Bairstow mania, I think it got lost quite how pure this Stokes strike was
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Dawid Malan is the 20th man to make a duck for England in Test cricket this year.
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Absolutely mental that this is the first time England have ever scored 400 in both innings of a Test.
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Genuinely spectacular passage in Perth. Bumrah on fire, Marnus struggling, and Kohli more desperate for a wicket than any cricketer in history after that drop.
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Absolutely mental that James Anderson, 42, is going to be playing with Rocky Flintoff, 16, in April.
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Satisfying: Joe Root needed 150 not out or 200 and out in this innings to get his average back to 50. Ben Stokes declares when Joe Root hits six to move from 147 to 153, with his average 50.01.
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This feels nuts, but Jonny Bairstow has made two of England's great Test hundreds in the space of 10 days, when a load of people wanted him dropped (six months into a year where he already had two hundreds). Mad.
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Ben Stokes finishes with 199 runs in the series. Averaged 7.6 in the second innings, and had seven scores under 15. Increasingly a sitting duck against India's spinners, especially Ashwin.
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Jarvo 69 has been arrested on suspicion of assault and is in custody in south London.
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Basically, when Joe Root fails twice – which he will every now and then! – England don't have a hope. Edgbaston 2021, Grenada 2022, Lord's 2022. They haven't won when he's not made a 50 for more than 2 years.
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Mitch Marsh says "I am the first man to score a Test hundred on a UK holiday".
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Chris Woakes is the only England batter to reach double figures in every innings this series.
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Kane Williamson is so much more than he's given credit for.
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Joe Root has an IPL deal! He's off to Rajasthan Royals with Jos Buttler for his base price (approx £100k).
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Abrar Ahmed saying his favourite of his seven wickets was Ben Stokes. "My favourite player" 🥰.
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England play this mad new game at training now. McCullum whacks a tennis ball into the air, a (helmeted) coach has to head it, and the players catch. Vibes ✌️
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Always been a Colgate guy but, on day 7 of this series, I am genuinely considering the switch to Sensodyne.
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Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer and Stuart Broad securing a 2-2 draw for England in a delayed Test at Old Trafford next summer would be quite funny.
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Staggering that Ben Stokes had never made an iT20 fifty. Staggering that he found one with a World Cup final on the line.
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Dutch people calling Jos Buttler "Yos" is much more enjoyable than Australians calling him "Josh".
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James Anderson has a Test wicket for the 21st successive year: . 2003.2004.2005.2006.2007.2008.2009.2010.2011.2012.2013.2014.2015.2016.2017.2018.2019.2020.2021.2022.2023. 🤯.
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Just quietly, still only one hundred outside Australia for the ICC's no1-ranked batter Marnus Labuschagne.
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Dawid Malan just out in Hobart. Last night in Harrogate, his wife Claire gave birth to their first child, six weeks early
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Joe Root has passed 1,700 runs in 2021. England's next best has 530.
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Absolutely howling day for your non cricket watching mate to drop a "who's winning?".
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The great England all-rounders always turn it on at Headingley in the Ashes: Ian Botham, Ben Stokes, Mark Wood.
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How have Australia ended up with the debutant opener facing first ball and a nightwatch coming out with 20+ mins to go?!.
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Fox are reporting that Shane Warne has died aged 52 of a suspected heart attack. Simply unbelievable bowler and one of the most entertaining characters in the game's history. Dreadful news.
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The necklace Joe Root kissed when he reached his hundred was made for him by his son Alfie before he left for the Caribbean. Cute.
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Moeen Ali is England's leading runscorer and wicket-taker in this Test.
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Very England:. Pujara-Kohli-Rahane combined: 10 runs. Shami-Bumrah-Siraj combined: 48 runs.
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Ben Duckett's first Ashes series ends with 321 runs at 35.7, and with his career average sitting at 43.1. Very solid, and for the first time in a long while no questions about England's opening pair.
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How cool is that - Adil Rashid working with young Dutch spinners in the nets while England bat.
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Moeen Ali going to be the first English winner of the IPL. Seriously decorated career: 50o World Cup winner, Ashes winner, other big Test series, won Blast as skipper. Will have to play a big role if England are to add T20 World Cup to his trophy cabinet. 👑.
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Every now and again it hits you that Shane Warne is no longer around. Like now. He should be there asking every Aussie player if "are ya thirsty?".
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Jofra Archer has hit Zak Crawley flush on the helmet with the final ball of his first over.
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The Pat Cummins situation is quite incredible. A couple of dozen Covid cases across the state of South Australia and the best cricketer in the world happens to sit next to one of them at dinner.
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After two Tests of Jacob Bethell, think we’ve been asking the wrong question. Not “why have England picked a bloke at 3 who has never batted in the top order for his county?” but “why has this bloke never batted in the top order for his county?”.
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Jack Leach has his first Test 10-wicket haul. He also has a lower Test average than Nathan Lyon.
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England have been bowled out in exactly 16.4 overs in their last two T20s v SA. Perfect prep for the Hundred.
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Harry Brook has bowled the same number of maidens in this match as Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Mitch Marsh and Todd Murphy combined.
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Fascinating development of England's strategy to just bring Harry Brook on every time they want to dry things up, in the knowledge that the batter will be so paralysed by fear of getting out to this filth that they are left shotless.
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Yashasvi Jaiswal is mad good. Four tons in 15 Tests and this one, 161, is the smallest of the four.
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Amazing picture here of the Dalai Lama meeting the Pope and his entourage
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Joe Root has a classy hundred, his first in the fourth innings of a Test, and in doing so moves to 10,000 Test runs. Incredibly he and Alastair Cook – the only other Englishman to do so – both got there aged 31 years and 157 days. They're the joint youngest of the 14 to make it.
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Joe Root and Dawid Malan: scoring the runs, taking the wickets.
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