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2 years

Almost 500 Tests and I've never seen an England player bat so brilliantly in two consecutive Tests as Jonny Bairstow. Inspired.

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Kagiso Rabada banned for next Test for screaming his heart out after dismissing the opposition's best batsman with the ball of this series. The only time ICC takes action is when it should not take action.

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7 years

I would back India to chase down 338 against any bowling attack in this tournament - except Pakistan's.

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3 years

The ECB version of give and take: Pakistan off, Australia on

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4 years

Thank you Pakistan for touring England this summer. It would have been duller without all your variety.

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6 years

Many thanks to NZ Cricket and Kane Williamson for the presentation this morning to mark my 450th Test.

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3 years

Today at Trent Bridge was the nearest to normality since covid began. A large, happy crowd and England collapsing

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5 years

Thanks everyone! Trite but true, it has been a real privilege to follow England for 43 years, and especially now, when they are admirable human beings. Journos are meant to be impartial but it should be said. And batsmen round England will be delighted I intend to play more...

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If England win the second Test, against this Indian team with 3 spinners on a bunsen after losing the toss, it has to be their best away win...

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5 years

Alan Knott, Bob Taylor, Jack Russell, Ben Foakes... but for the wicketkeeper in my alltime XI, I will go for Sarah Taylor. Thank you for the memories of your graceful athleticism.

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5 years

Mark Wood's 19-ball spell before tea against West Indies was the fastest for England I have ever seen

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3 years

Keeping the creak in cricket...

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3 years

Congrats to @scyldberry after his 3 wicket haul today making him the clubs top wicket taker of all time: 385 wickets, best bowling 7/37 with 13 5 wicket hauls. #GoScyld

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3 years

Seldom have I enjoyed a session more than the last couple of hours of the Aus v Eng Women's Test in Canberra.

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6 years

Andrew Strauss' wife dies at 46 after battle with lung cancer

Ruth Strauss, the wife of Andrew Strauss who gave up his job as England director of cricket to nurse her, has died of a rare form of lung cancer which afflicts non-smokers, aged 46.

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6 years

Just to say I won’t attend the Lord’s Test against Pakistan because my daughter is getting married in Scotland. First Lord’s Test I’ve missed since 1976. Back for Headingley

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2 years

Anyone who said at the time that Ben Stokes declared too soon...

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A thought for a relatively quiet day. Finest cricket commentator in the world atm: Vic Marks on the Somerset live stream. A perfect balance of whatever it takes for the job.

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7 years

Not Sutcliffe. Not Hutton. Not Boycott. First to score 100 in each innings at Headingley is Shai Hope - and no luck involved just superb

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7 years

It would be a travesty if Somerset were docked points for this Taunton pitch.Hildreth untroubled.It is nearer to Minehead than a minefield.

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2 years

Superlative as England were in winning 3-0 in Pakistan, I would say that their victory comes third after England's 3-1 win in Australia in 2010-11, then the 2-1 win in India in 2012-13, as their best in modern times, given the relative strengths of the opposition.

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3 years

It was for the ECB bosses to tell the players this Test was about more than results, rather like the Victory Tests of 1945. The players could and should have lightened the national mood, as well as popularised cricket.

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5 years

Wow! Archer v Smith was up there with the alltime duels, like Donald v Atherton, and Flintoff v Kallis, and Mitchell Johnson v ... except no England batsman stayed in long enough in 2013-4

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4 years

Congratulations and thanks to all who overcame unique difficulties to stage this cricket season - especially the groundsmen in the bio-bubbles at Old Trafford and Southampton, Derby and Worcester.

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3 years

Nothing wrong with this fourth Test pitch - only with England's artless batting!

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5 months

Mike Procter RIP was one of the finest people ever to play cricket, as a human being as well as a world-class allrounder.

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3 years

Disappointed to say this but didn't England's cricketers today fail to sense what the country required of them and do their job of entertaining? Burns, Crawley, Root, Pope and Lawrence to chase the target, Sibley and Bracey to shut up shop.

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2 years

Do you agree with the Telegraph All-time England Test XI (WG too old as he didn't play his first Test till 32): Hobbs, Cook, Hammond, Root, Pietersen, Stokes, Botham, Knott, Laker, Trueman, Anderson. I would have had Syd Barnes not Laker. The captain? Almost unanimous: Stokes!

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5 years

Not too sicky I trust to thank Telegraph editors over the years for letting me write what I have wanted to - not something to take for granted. And I'll try to sum up the changes in 43 years of touring in tomorrow's paper...

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8 years

I've got to say - and do in Sunday Telegraph - that Haseeb Hameed's debut is the most promising by an England batsmen I've seen in 40 years

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3 years

Slumming it at Edgbaston, even in covid times the best gourmet venue in English cricket:

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6 years

To pick Adil Rashid on the strength of his white-ball bowling and ignoring the psychological hold India have over him in red-ball Tests? Rash decision all round

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5 years

Afghanistan beat Pakistan by 3 wickets in the warm-up match. The biggest, burliest, strongest and most skillful minnows I've ever seen

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@scyldberry

3 years

What's it like to tour Australia? My latest/last book tries to capture the essence of every Test country - and its cricket - which England tour, from Aus to Zim. Beyond the Boundaries Add the coupon code FIELD2021 to get £3 off and pay just £16 + p&p

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4 years

For the first in an 18-part weekly series (if I'm spared) on the past, present and future of our first-class counties, please see and enjoy

County File: Derbyshire are as unfashionable as any county, but deserve to survive with their...

In the first of a weekly 18-part series on the past, present and future of the first-class counties, Scyld Berry begins with Derbyshire

www.telegraph.co.uk

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2 years

Looking forward to England v South Africa 3-Test series this summer after SA's win in NZ. SA have a better attack than England (or NZ) in all conditions except a green seamer - Rabada, Jansen, Nortje, Maharaj - and they can field. V promising side

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3 years

Here's a photo of Maram, the 14 year-old Syrian girl who wrote - in English - that amazingly powerful poem quoted in the Telegraph's Saturday sports section. Batting in Beirut isn't easy, but she is giving it her best.

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2 years

What I will remember most fondly about Shane Warne, having spoken a few times and played against him once, was his right attitude to sport: play hard as you can on the field then switch off, don't over-analyse, and enjoy life. Otherwise sport becomes life, not an escape.

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7 years

Chris Woakes is the Angela Merkel of England cricket, offering sense and stability when insanity threatens to overtake!

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2 years

The climax of the India v Pakistan game is a fine illustration of why and where the Hundred falls short: a 5-ball set is far less dramatic than a 6-ball over.

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6 years

There are fairytales in cricket: Alastair Cook reaches 100 in his last Test innings, while batting at his best this morning. The ovation lasts for a couple of minutes

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1 year

Ahead of the last round of championship matches, before other formats take over, may I recommend this celebration of county cricket, published by Pitch:

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@scyldberry

5 years

You would have to go a long, long way to see more senseless bowling than England's this morning.

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@scyldberry

5 years

Finished my 40th consecutive season for Hinton Charterhouse CC. Thank you to all involved. #veryhappyandprivileged .

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2 years

Just in case you haven't seen our club career bowling averages updated after last weekend!

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7 years

Just didn't seem right - a West Indies v England match without Tony Cozier,the first since World War II not covered by him or his dad Jimmy?

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3 years

There could not have been a better time for the England cricket captain to come into his own. Thank you, Joe Root, for the pleasure you are giving. Another captain, Tom, would be proud.

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5 years

Poor Sri Lanka, again. I'd say the Cinammon Grand in Colombo was the cricket hotel - the one every international cricketer passed through sooner or later

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@scyldberry

7 years

World-class stand between Shakib and Mahmudullah made NZ crack - cdnt have been better. Bangladesh can beat anyone abroad as well as at home

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5 years

Happy 90th birthday today to David Foot, cricket's finest essayist!

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@scyldberry

7 years

Welcome to Pak v SA at Edgbaston. One Pak player, Sarfraz, remains from the last ODI between these countries in 2015,such is their turnover

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2 years

Happy New Year everyone! Shall we hope that 2023 sees peace in Europe - and the first ever England 3 Australia 2 result in England?

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4 years

RIP Ed Meddings,aged 98,as well as John Edrich and Robin Jackman (see Telegraph online for obituaries). Ed fought in WW2, was a pilot in the Berlin blockade, represented GB in the 1948 Olympics at bobsleigh, and was Hinton CCC groundsman for 30 years, expecting nothing in return.

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7 years

Nobody plays cricket like Pakistan at their inspired best,now West Indies have gone. And for my analysis of England pse see Sunday Telegraph

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2 years

All credit to MCC, without any reservation, for doing the Ruth Strauss Foundation ceremony to perfection, and rightly. In my 40-odd years covering England cricket she was the finest person I've met.

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The ICC should have taken a stand on behalf of Test cricket and de-classified NZ v SA after the latter selected a second XI.

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@scyldberry

7 years

I'm not going to delete my tweet of yesterday saying England will win.It is a measure of how superbly Shai Hope and Kraigg Brathwaite batted

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@scyldberry

5 years

If the ECB pays me, like the counties, £1.2m to support the Hundred, with its blocks of ten balls and the illogicality of reducing it to 2 1/2 hours then adding time-outs... oh no, I won't

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7 years

Moeen Ali has always given the ball air when he has batted but now he gives it air when he bowls. A worthy man of the match and this series

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@scyldberry

4 years

Why on earth hasn't the ECB yet announced the task force, advocated by Nick Hoult, to look into racism in English cricket? So little money required to fund it, so much to be done to redress.

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3 years

Wouldn't it have been more considerate of ICC to have staged Afghanistan's game v NZ in Sharjah, where UAE's Afghans live, not in an almost empty stadium in affluent Abu Dhabi?

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@scyldberry

4 years

If you aren't too busy today, please enjoy a nice long read about Durham - free online, abridged in the Telegraph - in the second of my 18-part series, with thanks to Paul Collingwood for his recent interview.

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3 years

No worse feeling as a player than that you have let your teammates down. Poor Dom

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@scyldberry

8 years

Congrats to Pakistan on 2-2: I didn't predict that before this series. Which completes 40 summers of covering England without missing a Test

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@scyldberry

3 years

@HintonCCC Thanks to my fielders, especially long-on, long-off and cow, plus wicketkeepers for all their efforts

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@scyldberry

5 years

My 23rd Ashes series - what a privilege - and not a bad toss to lose on a grey cloudy morning for nervy batsmen

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8 years

I'm pleased and proud - because it's peer recognition - that Cricket: the Game of Life won the Cricket Writers Club book of the year award!

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@scyldberry

2 years

Cricket does not come any better than Bairstow and Stokes v Bumrah and Shami: two world-class simultaneous duels!

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@scyldberry

6 years

Happy retirement to Mitchell Johnson, in 2013-14 the most awe-inspiring bowler I have seen. And a most admirable family man from a broken home

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6 years

Best of luck to Ireland in their inaugural Test today. Initially they have to become what NZ used to be: the hard-scrapping underdogs, very difficult to beat.

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5 years

England deserved to win the World Cup if only by the very finest of margins. They beat the 3 other semifinalists at some stage and could play a more attacking game than gallant NZ.

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6 years

Thank you very much for all kind messages - but more credit to Test cricket for its constant novelty. Nobody guessed Stuart Broad would take wickets with his first two balls of day five, including Kane Williamson for his first-ever first-baller, a steep lifter on fourth stump...

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4 years

Welcome to Arundel where Jimmy's comrade-in-arms Sir Alastair Cook has reached 24000 runs and yet another 100. Guess how? Yes, a push to midwicket

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3 years

A multi-format week. Sun: 40-over league. Mon: Lord's Test. Tues: 40-over friendly. Wed: knee surgeon appointment. Thurs: 50-over Durham v Glam final. Fri: Oval eliminator x 2. Sat: Lord's Hundred final x 2. What day of the week is it tomorrow??

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3 years

For England's next game against South Africa in Sharjah I'd select Mark Wood, if fully fit, to replace Tymal Mills, and David Willey to bat at 3 instead of Dawid Malan. Two new pace bowlers for the price of one, and more punch at 3. But we need Malan in Australia!

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2 years

You wouldn't believe how well Ollie Pope batted v Warks, now with an orthodox stance. England's Test revival will begin sooner rather than later if he fulfils his talent this summer.

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@scyldberry

7 years

Wonderful innings of 114 off 106 balls by Fakhar Zaman, and wonderful catch by Ravi Jadeja, and wonderful game full of skills and surprises.

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3 years

This World Cup showcased the drawback to T20 cricket as well as its exciting potential for future growth in hitting: never in Tests would you see 3 consecutive games of exactly the same pattern, as in this WC knockout stage.

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@scyldberry

3 years

Unveiling at Taunton of the plaque in memory of David Foot, author of 60m words at the minimum, without an infelicitous phrase

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4 years

Dan Lawrence's debut Test innings so similar to Joe Root's in 2012 (both 73 in Asia, mastering spin). Which is not to say he will be as productive but it is a most promising start.

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@scyldberry

7 years

Please salute James Anderson the master-craftsman of swing and seam. Kraigg Brathwaite b Anderson = 500th Test wicket. Yes, the master!

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@scyldberry

7 years

Government should legislate so that no child is restricted to playing only one sport before the age of 16. Early specialisation does no good

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4 years

Isn't it a pleasure to watch cricket again, if only two cameras for the England squad match? And isn't James Bracey nice and compact?

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@scyldberry

8 years

Whatever happens in the rest of his 2nd innings, after taking the attack to Jadeja and Ashwin it must be said Hameed is touched with genius.

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@scyldberry

8 years

Beware Alastair Cook: when Amir pitches fuller to Trescothick, and swings away, he has Tres caught behind for 8.

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6 years

Nathan Lyon for Australia's T20 side? Don't think so, David Willey has just hit him for 34 in one over: five sixes swung between long-off and deep mid-wicket, then cover-drove the last ball for 4. Lyon just fired it through, omitting to bowl offspin.

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4 years

As happy a Christmas as possible in these circumstances, but if you have a quiet time please try some nice long reads, on the 18 counties, for free:

County Files

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@scyldberry

6 years

Lashing down in Barbados. There would not have been play before lunch. England might regret donating 8 wickets to Roston Chase...

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@scyldberry

8 years

Is there a surface anywhere in the world on which Joe Root cannot score fluently? Blancmange? Rice pudding? The mattress in my hotel room?

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4 years

What's the quickest way to devalue Test cricket? To play a mini-series a year or so after the last one, as England are doing this winter in NZ and Sri Lanka.

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5 years

The greatest Test? Certainly the greatest Test innings - Ben Stokes 135 unbeaten and England win by one wicket

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1 year

England have played better cricket than Australia - and they have played worse cricket than Australia, who have been pretty steady throughout. And thus it goes on at the Oval....

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5 years

Afraid she leaves this country a meaner, less generous, place.

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3 years

Shouldn't the Olympics, like the next Commonwealth Games, include women's T20.... perhaps for the top 20 or 24 countries? No better way to spread the sport beyond the English-speaking world. Give teams like Brazil a goal, so to speak.

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6 years

Gorgeous train journey from Kandy to Colombo, in effect through one big botanical garden of tropical luxuriance when going down the mountains. Several warning signs beside the track: "25 kph, WEAK RAILS AND SLEEPERS". Well, it was built c. 1860...

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8 years

Yippee! After two months off sick I'm feeling well again, and was back playing cricket today, and back to work tomorrow...

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3 years

The Oval offered a total contrast: the joy of the women cricketers in the novelty of the Hundred and extending their skills, while Rashid Khan of Afghanistan looked more grief-stricken than any cricketer I have seen on the field.

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6 years

Wonderful debut Test 100 by Ben Foakes, reported to be the first by an England wicketkeeper in Asia! Must be a long time since an England Test 100 was made with a straighter bat - none of the cross-bat high-risks shots by England's top order.

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8 years

Cannot recall a weaker England display than this morning. They did not lose the fourth Test by an innings and 36 runs, they surrendered it.

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5 years

England have already toured West Indies and New Zealand this year, and won the World Cup, and drawn the Ashes series, yet a week after getting home jet lagged from NZ they are on an all night flight to South Africa. Unfair, ECB? Inconsiderate? Or inhumane?

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6 years

Good old Smithy - and has Steve Smith aged in the last week, a boy no longer - he will be a force for good after his ban.

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