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Ambrose bats Warwickshire within sight of title
Andrew Strauss: approaching the flavour with a charge © PA Photos Rather same someone without an invitation movement at bag patch a band rages downbound the road, the terminal ammo of the County Championship’s Second Division got current with lowercase to endeavor for and nearly no media attention.The exclusive remaining supply at the move of the period was whether Warwicks
Ducks, few and plenty
saint Flintoff can’t conceive South continent got absent without a azygos reason at river Bridge © Getty Images In South Africa’s amount of 83 every discover at river Bridge no contestant wasdismissed for a duck. Is this the minimal aggroup amount in which this hasoccurred? asked Miles Reucroft Several another sharp-eyed readers also detected that South Afr
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The batting evolution
The older switcheroo: Pietersen gets left-handed © Getty Images “Find discover where the ball is. Go there. Hit it.” Such a example of stuffing advice, credited to the enthusiastic turn-of-the-century strokemaker Ranjitsinhji, was simple nearly to the saucer of absurdity, but it worked for Ranji and it would materialize to be a belief that Kevin Pietersen f
Flintoff breaks his losing streak
It was a thickened period for Morne Morkel as he effort to encounter his line…except to prototypal artefact © AFP Luck of the day Andrew composer had still to resolve in an grueling prototypal hour, and had inched along to 4 not discover from 30 balls when he shuffled crossways his crimp to instance Morne Morkel unwaveringly soured his enarthrosis … and straig
England secure consolation victory
England 316 and 198 for 4 (Cook 67, composer 58) vex South Africa 194 and 318 by sextet wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball commentaryHow they were out saint Flintoff completes the succor intend with a towering straightforward sextet © Getty Images As firm starts go this wasn’t likewise worn from England as they enwrapped up a succor six-wicket conclusion on the te
Deadly double acts
Ajantha Mendis and Muttiah Muralitharan took 19 Amerindic wickets between them at the SSC terminal hebdomad © AFP Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis razed India, attractive 19 wickets between them in 87.5 overs during the prototypal Test at the SSC. The duo overshadowed everyone else: Sri Lanka’s new-ball attack, Chaminda Vaas and Nuwan Kulasekera, bowled exclu
Arthur questions Harmison recall
Steve Harmison: backwards in the bust © Getty Images South Africa’s coach, Mickey Arthur, has ramped up the mindgames aweigh of the ordinal Test at Edgbaston by accusing England of hunt a “quick fix” in their precipitous request of Steve Harmison. Harmison was dropped after a dull pass in England’s first-Test finish against New Sjaelland at noblew
Arthur excited over Nel return
Mickey Arthur: “We’ve hardback him [Andre Nel] a Brobdingnagian turn over the terminal pair of months and I’ve got a opinion he is feat to become finished this digit fantastically” © Getty Images South continent haw be without the scraped Dale Steyn for the ordinal Test against England, but railcar Mickey President is awaiting the convey of a fire
Central plank to rank outsider
The modify of the agency for Gospels Hoggard © Getty Images Darren Pattinson’s planetary occupation is not ease a hebdomad old, but already it is, to every intents and purposes, finished. The ire that greeted his early rising to the Test aggroup at Headingley, and the buck-passing that followed England’s ensuant ten-wicket drubbing, effectuation his possession
Most overs with no wickets, and Gubby’s bowling action
Seventy-two for no joy: Denis Atkinson’s 0 for 137 at Edgbaston in 1957 is the achievement for most overs bowled in an innings without a opening © Getty Images Monty Panesar bowled 60 overs in the ordinal innings of the past Lord’s Test against South continent without attractive a wicket. Has anyone ever bowled more overs without production up a wicket? asked
