Andy Bull
Senior Sports Reporter and Writer at The Guardian
Senior sports writer for the Guardian. Author of Speed Kings.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Andy Bull
Spring 2006 and India are batting against England at the Wankhede in Mumbai. The series is all square, one Test each with one to play. England, batting first, have made an even 400, thanks in large part to a century by Andrew Strauss and 88 from his Middlesex teammate Owais Shah, who is making his debut. It is just past tea on the second day and India’s openers are already gone, bounced out by Matthew Hoggard.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Andy Bull
South Africa lost their shot at winning this World Test Championship in 2022, when their board announced the team were going to play 28 games in the next four years. They lost it for a second time during the spring of last year, when they packed their reserve team off to play a series against New Zealand because their centrally contracted players had to stay back and play in a franchise tournament.
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Andy Bull
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Andy Bull
Slip has turned into a silly position this week. And because cricket is such a contrary sport, this means it’s become a very serious business indeed. Old salts say there’s no such thing as an easy catch in there, and there have been some hellish difficult ones at Lord’s. Most of them have been taken, too; there have been a cupped handful of brilliant catches in the position.
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Andy Bull
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