Surrey is once again the team to beat: PA/John Walton The County Championship season starts on Friday and there will be plenty of quality on display, with a number of English players set to play most of the first six rounds. Telegraph Sport’s experts predict how the season will go and which players to keep … Read more
Ben Stokes may have to recalibrate England’s strategy – Getty Images/Gareth Copley Competing with Australia and India, England failed to beat the two best teams in the world and to get to the next level they need to “smooth off the rough edges”, as Brendon McCullum admitted after the defeat in Ranchi. “I haven’t thought … Read more
Jasprit Bumrah celebrates as India beat England to win the second Test – Getty Images/Dibyangshu Sarkar Two days earlier, Jasprit Bumrah’s yorker raced towards its target with the precision of a drone, leaving only one of Ollie Pope’s stumps in place. Forty-eight hours later, Bumrah produced a worthy encore, even if its virtues were slightly … Read more
Ben Foakes and Jonny Bairstow have played in the same Test squad before and it seems likely this will happen at least at the start of the India series Ben Foakes is set to regain the wicketkeeping gloves from Jonny Bairstow when England’s Test series in India begins on Thursday. During England’s net session in … Read more
Bob Taylor was always a wicketkeeper first, and a batsman second – PAUL COOPER Bob Taylor jumps out of his chair, clasps his hands together, catches an imaginary ball and throws it to first slip in a move that is as smooth at the age of 82 as it was when he faced Bob Willis. … Read more