Tag: Ben Stokes
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JUST STOP
Of all my blog posts, I don’t think that any has had the topical immediacy of today’s. Yet again, I am moved to write about the ongoing test series between England and Australia, but sadly, for the wrong reason. This morning, those who care about such things were excited by the resumption of hostilities after…
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Criticism Is Just Not Cricket
If you ask any English cricket fan to name his or her top ten test matches, they will almost certainly name a goodly number of English victories over Australia. Their list would probably include “Botham’s match”, played at Headingley in 1981, England’s victory by three runs at Melbourne in 1982-83, their two-run thriller at Edgbaston…
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