Surrey squeezed past Somerset by one wicket with only three balls to spare to claim the final spot in the One-Day Cup knockout stages. In a match between third and fourth at The Oval, the home side needed seven off the final over to chase down Somerset’s 295-7 off their 50 overs. As it was,
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Available for over a year Simon Mann is joined by Jonathan Agnew, Michael Vaughan, Sir Alastair Cook, Ramiz Raja, Phil Tufnell and Andy Zaltzman to review a dramatic 3rd Test against Pakistan, look back on the men’s red ball summer as a whole and look ahead to the Tests in the winter. We also get
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Root first regained the captaincy for the second Test against New Zealand in June after Stokes – who had been backed to remain in post alongside McCullum after last winter’s Ashes defeat by Australia – was left out after breaking a team curfew. After Stokes retired following the series defeat by New Zealand a Test
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It is 2026 and Joe Root is again England Test captain and Kevin Pietersen is back in the fold. For those two things to be the new normal says plenty about the upheaval in one of the most turbulent summers in English cricket’s recent history. The debate as to whether there should have been alterations
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Hesson previously coached New Zealand between 2012 and 2018 and said he was approached by the England and Wales Cricket Board over replacing Brendon McCullum. England sacked McCullum as their Test coach in July and subsequently named another Kiwi in Stephen Fleming as his successor. “I was contacted by my agent to say there had
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Third Rothesay Test, Edgbaston (day four of five) Pakistan 133 (Tongue 4-42) & 449 (Masood 95, Razaullah 81, Babar 76, Awais 59) England 453 (Brook 75, Smith 69, Lawrence 65, Gay 60, Robinson 50; Razaullah 4-148) & 130-2 (Root 62*, Cox 59*) England won by eight wickets, won series 3-0 Scorecard England survived an almighty
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