New regulations in one-day cricket are likely to ensure that there’ll be a greater frequency of bigger scores, meaning more hard work for bowlers, writes Simon Hughes in the Daily Telegraph. A maximum of only four fielders are now permitted on the boun…
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Every so often we get a glimpse of how Don Bradman batted and now the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia has released previously unseen footage of “The Don” playing on a privately organised tour of Canada in 1932. The film, which you can watc…
Scyld Berry, in the Daily Telegraph, writes of the problems travelling England journalists and players faced in India in times past and the changes they’re seeing today. And the walls were somewhat thin. The hotel may have been built in the latest west…
Scyld Berry, writing in the Daily Telegraph, writes that there’s much hope for the future of Test cricket in India given there’s little sign of Twenty20 life in the maidans of Mumbai. No Twenty20 cricket, from what I have seen in the last week here. Th…
Simon Hughes has spelt out three main reasons for England’s historic victory in Mumbai. In his Daily Telegraph column, Hughes suggests the biggest bonus for England was the bounce in the surface that favoured both their spinners and their batsman. Boun…
Kevin Pietersen’s 186 in Mumbai has led to much praise and discussion about where it stands in the various judgements of great innings. In the Daily Telegraph, Scyld Berry argues that it’s the finest innings played by an Englishmen in India. It was as …
Simon Hughes, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says there are things England’s fast bowlers can learn from the way their Indian counterparts performed in the Ahmedabad Test as they prepare to recover in the second Test in Mumbai. James Anderson cannot s…
England picked three fast bowlers for the first Test, at Motera in Ahmedabad. Scyld Berry, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says that it’s precisely that decision that may cost them the match. Their selection of three pace bowlers for a pitch that is …