Chris Stocks

3 days ago | inews.co.uk | Chris Stocks

Type “Mark Wood golf” into Google and the first thing that comes up is the website for a golf instructor from Hampshire, not the England fast bowler who recently complained about media focus on the team’s passion for the sport. The irony is that Wood, the cricketer, is one of the few players in the squad who does not play golf. Indeed, during rest days on tour, the Durham bowler is often put up for media duties while his teammates are getting in 18 holes.

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Chris Stocks

The words of India coach Gautam Gambhir just hours before his country launched missile strikes against Pakistan now seem eerily prescient given cricketing relations between the two nations are likely to be completely severed. “My personal answer to this is absolutely no, there should not be anything between India and Pakistan,” Gambhir told an event in Delhi on Tuesday afternoon when asked whether the two countries should continue playing each other at global tournaments.

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Chris Stocks

England have called up Essex pair Sam Cook and Jordan Cox for the opening Test of the summer against Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge later this month. As revealed by The i Paper two weeks ago, Cook, the 27-year-old seamer who has taken 318 first-class wickets at 19.77, finally gets his chance at international level after being named in a 13-man squad for the four-day Test that starts in Nottingham on 22 May.

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Chris Stocks

Former England captain Michael Vaughan called it “one of sport’s most remarkable stories”, while West Indies legend Ian Bishop branded it “otherworldly”, adding: “It’s hard to really speak logic to this.”They are not the only ones trying to make sense of Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the teenage prodigy whose 101 for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League on Monday made him the youngest centurion in men’s Twenty20 cricket.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Chris Stocks

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