Category: Test Cricket

The ultimate test of endurance and mental toughness. It’s quite difficult for the the players too. Don’t worry, though, these posts won’t take 5 days to read.

Bangladesh are slowly improving, that much was clear from their two test series against England. There is now very little justification in calls to remove them from Test cricket, but there is still some way for them to go before they can compete on a level. Here's how can they do it.

How Bangladesh can crack test cricket

Although it might not seem like it from a distance, Bangladesh are improving steadily. A glance at their performances the last time they were in England proves it. Today they showed that England are in for a fight.

Bangladesh execute their processes

Jonathan Trott scored an untroubled 175 on the 1st day of the 1st test against Bangladesh. Another 25 runs will see him break one of the unspoken rules of English cricketing etiquette.

Trott forgets his Ps and Qs

Bangladesh are slowly improving, but their experience is limited mostly to the dry roads of the sub-continent and the Caribbean. It's hard to imagine them mustering much resistance in English early summer conditions.

Series preview: mountain to climb for Bangladesh

There's an Ashes series looming on the horizon. Which is why the media are in a frenzy, turning out whatever tripe they can get their hands on. This time, they've started early.

Lazy Ashes reporting starts early

You may have noticed that I have taken a break from blogging on this site over the winter. The reasons for this are numerous, but I am now ready to return to normal service.

Normal service resumes…

South Africa are just about the best team in the world right now. England are hopeful, but in reality they have got their work cut out. Here's what they have to do to overcome the odds.

6 things England need to do to beat South Africa

Nowadays the umpire is viewed not as the gate-keeper of the integrity of the sport but, it seems, as an anachronistic, error-prone technophobe. David Shepherd is undoubtedly held as the former, well respected both by those within the game and those watching from their armchairs. So his death at the age of 68 will be mourned by all those who remember him so fondly.

Umpire David Shepherd dies aged 68

Shane Warne has a habit of saying things in the press that English cricket does not want to hear and that come back to bite us. Remember what he said about Ravi Bopara before the Ashes?

So when Warne writes in his Times column that England will ruin Stuart Broad we should start to worry. A lot.

Shane Warne is right about Broad

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