Nick Hoult

India, Ontario

Chief Cricket Correspondent at The Telegraph

Chief cricket correspondent @telegraph

Articles

The wait to see Jofra Archer play Test cricket again is almost over

1 day ago | msn.com | Nick Hoult |Will Macpherson

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England plan for Jofra Archer to play second Test against India

1 day ago | msn.com | Nick Hoult |Will Macpherson

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England plan for Jofra Archer to play second Test against India

1 day ago | sports.yahoo.com | Nick Hoult

England are planning for Jofra Archer to make his return to Test cricket against India at Edgbaston next month as the management juggle a series of injuries to their seam bowling attack. Archer is in line to play the second Test of the series providing he proves his fitness in a championship match for Sussex against Durham on June 23.
How England lured Jacob Bethell away from West Indies

5 days ago | msn.com | Nick Hoult

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How England lured Jacob Bethell away from West Indies

5 days ago | sports.yahoo.com | Nick Hoult

“Jacob is a sponge, so he will have learnt a lot from Virat.”Michael Powell should know because he was Jacob Bethell’s cricket coach at Rugby School. Bethell spent six years there, where Powell and his wife Michelle were guardians to the boy who arrived from Barbados aged 12, with a reference from Sir Garfield Sobers and Brian Lara in his back pocket.
How England lured Jacob Bethell away from West Indies

5 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Nick Hoult

Bethell, 21, is the latest with cricket in his blood and a grounding in the game that was fine-tuned on the fields of Rugby. Powell would spend hours on the school grounds where the sport of rugby union was born, hitting balls in the air for the teenage Bethell to dive around and catch. "You know what? He never, ever dropped a single one. He was a phenomenal fielder. Hand on heart, the first time I saw him swing a bat, I thought he'd play international cricket," he said.
The 6ft 7in former Sunderland footballer turned England cricketer

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Nick Hoult

There are a lot of dangers opening the batting, not least a clonk on the head from a fast bowler, but Ben McKinney suffered one of the more bizarre injuries this season. McKinney, the Durham opener fancied by England and playing for the Lions against India this week, missed a championship match against Hampshire earlier this month after injuring himself pressing a button in a lift. "I had a heavy bag on my shoulder and bent down to press the button.
Jacob Bethell shows signs of a generational talent in thumping England victory

1 week ago | msn.com | Nick Hoult |Will Macpherson |Kieran Crichard

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Jacob Bethell makes good on school coach’s vision to kick-start Harry Brook era

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Nick Hoult

Jacob Bethell first set foot inside Edgbaston as a 12-year-old and was told by his school coach to imagine one day playing at the ground for England. The vision came true against West Indies, with Bethell marking his first international at his home ground with a dazzling 82 from 53 balls that instantly put pressure back on Ollie Pope for the No 3 spot in the Test side.
Bethell stars in thumping England win over West Indies

1 week ago | ca.sports.yahoo.com | Nick Hoult

Jacob Bethell only arrived back in England earlier this week at the end of his IPL stint but looked as if he had been playing in English conditions all summer as he put the finishing touches on a perfect day Harry Brook, who marked his first game as official captain with a win, a fifty and an ODI record-equalling five catches for an outfielder.