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Twenty20 cricket was just a twinkle in the eye of the forward-thinking, the late South Africa captain Hansie Cronje was banned for match-fixing and Chris Schofield was scoring a half-century for England against a Zimbabwe team captained by Andy Flower….
Fed up of Vaughan’s one-day ineptitude, the ECB allowed him to use a metal bat – though, only a miniature version – in the format, hoping it would change things around. It didn’t © Getty Images Welcome to part one of the official and unarguable Co…
In the fog of the phoney KP wars, its easy to forget that hostilities began with him pilloried as a mercenary for wanting to play in the IPL, and ended with Andy Flower saying that 'ideally' England's players should participate in franchise…
Andrew Strauss may have had problems related to his batting or with his approach sometimes as an overall pragmatic captain, but he conducted himself with utmost dignity as an England captain off the field. After Strauss retired from professional cricke…
Cricket: Flower wants Pietersen to come clean over text messages. Posted: 22 August 2012 1821 hrs. England cricket team coach Andy Flower and player Kevin Pietersen (R) talk during a. Photos, of. LONDON: England coach Andy Flower believes Kevin …See …
Andy Flower: will he get the crown or the guillotine? © Getty Images As a fan of violent and traumatic Jacobean tragedy, I’ve rather enjoyed the last week of brutal plot twists, ominous whispering and occasional off-stage eye-gouging. Andrew Str…
Vic Marks, writing in the Guardian, says it is with good reason that England should continue their rotation policy given the ‘ludicrous’ scheduling over the cricketing summer. Having embraced rotation, England should stick with it, whoever the oppositi…
Kevin Pietersen's absence from one-day international cricket is a sad state of affairs, according to the England coach Andy Flower. Before Pietersen announced his decision to retire from 50-over cricket – and therefore Twenty20 internationals too…
“Look, it's not as if we're pulling some plonker out of league cricket, and saying 'have a go',” he said. “That would devalue the game.” Flower, the England team director, had left James Anderson out of the squad for the third a…