It is a foregone conclusion that England need a new captain. There is no doubt about it. Joe Root, the incumbent, wants to continue as the captain for the foreseeable
For quite sometime now, I have been thinking about whether both Root and Stokes are overrated? I have my own reasons to think along those lines. They are good cricketers.
England lost the series to West Indies for the umpteenth time. It was a foregone conclusion. I for one fully expected England to lose the series. Not because they dared
The West Indies vs England series and the Australia vs Pakistan series are boring advertisement test cricket. There isn’t any other way to say this. There were lot of expectations
James Anderson and Stuart Broad, England’s most successful new-ball pair have been dropped from the squad for the tour of West Indies. This is a significant development. The two elder
0-4 defeat out of home, in Australia. All the defeats were of humiliating in nature. This is enough for any board to change the setup and the ECB have ringed
One more year and one more Ashes is done and dusted. Australia swept to an easy win. England were nowhere found in the entire series. It was a complete one-sided
The Ashes is gone and England are down and out. They did well to draw the game at Sydney but the day-night game at Hobart will be a real challenge.
England will breathe a sigh of relief after Sydney. They have avoided another soul-crushing 0-5 whitewash. It would have been difficult to avoid the whitewash had they lost this game
One is sitting on a wave of recent success after a major upheaval whereas the other is sitting on a shellacking in the Ashes. One may even get one more