Cricket

A cricket dressing room is a great place to be in when you're winning but a pretty miserable one when you've just been hammered. There will have been plenty of soul-searching amongst the England playe

Reading v Hull It seems a bit late in the day to be thinking that Nicky Barmby is going to be having a big effect on Hull - he recently got the manager's job full-time but he's been in charge of th

I'm afraid to say the First Test has gone pretty much as predicted in my preview of it. I say afraid because as an ex-England captain, seeing my team getting skittled out for 192 in the first innings

All in all this should be a fascinating series. We know that England are virtually unbeatable in their own conditions where the ball swings and we know they can also be extremely efficient on slightly

Pakistan Pakistan beat Sri Lanka in a Test in Dubai in October last year, employing two spinners Saeed Ajmal and Abdul Rehman. They are likely to use the same ploy against England batsmen, regarded a

It's no surprise to see Graeme Swann head the England top series bowler market at around 2.8. After all, as a spinner he's more likely to bowl more overs than anyone else and these are turning pitches

Moment of 2011: Darren Clarke winning the Open. He won so easily in the end, I've never watched a Sunday afternoon like it. He'd been in the wilderness for so long, everyone just wanted him to win.

Good evening folks! So i'd like to start this edition / post with an apology - I haven't posted for at least 2 weeks, which is somehing i'm certainly not proud of. I've been having to sort so

The likes of Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott will be glad to be home already. They got absolutely thrashed in the ODI series and I'm sure they won't have been in the mood for a one-off T20 match agai

England haven't bowled, fielded or batted well during this series. Other than that, they've been just fine! Joking aside, I've talked about the batsmen making starts and not kicking on, wasting ene