Nick Hoult

India, Ontario

Chief Cricket Correspondent at The Telegraph

Chief cricket correspondent @telegraph

Articles

England eye history – and 350-run chase – in evenly poised first Test with India

4 days ago | msn.com | Rob Bagchi |Greg Wilcox |Nick Hoult |Will Macpherson |Scyld Berry |Tim Wigmore

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Headingley Ashes snub looks puzzling with yet more magic on cards

5 days ago | msn.com | Nick Hoult |Will Macpherson |Scyld Berry |Tim Wigmore |Rob Bagchi |Kieran Crichard

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Zen-like Pope passes brilliant Bumrah examination

6 days ago | msn.com | Will Macpherson |Nick Hoult |Tim Wigmore |Scyld Berry |Rob Bagchi |Kieran Crichard

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Shubman Gill wants India to dominate

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

Gill has consulted both Kohli and Rohit about captaining in England and will lean on Gambhir for advice. Together they want to build a team where players "feel secure and valued", giving them a longer rope, which will involve shutting out the noise and resisting the pressure to change tack when things inevitably go wrong at some stage. A captain is only as good as his bowling attack and in Jasprit Bumrah, Gill possesses the ace.
Shubman Gill the next captain to enter the Bazball vortex

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

Shubman Gill can never be accused of lacking confidence. Gill, the new India captain, has his nickname “Prince” stamped on his cricket bat and he is going to need that self-assurance when he comes face to face with Ben Stokes over the next six weeks. Under Stokes and Brendon McCullum, England have carved out a new style and, for all its ups and downs, Bazball achieves one thing; it rattles opposing captains.
Sticking with Ollie Pope could hurt England's Ashes chances

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

Pope's numbers are inflated by the Zimbabwe 171 and 205 against Ireland. Those runs still needed to be scored, but if you subtract the performances against the two minnows his average drops to 32. Suddenly, six hundreds in 96 innings looks pretty thin and in 36 of those, he has been dismissed facing 20 balls or fewer, not exactly the rock a team want at No 3 against the new ball.
Sticking with Ollie Pope could hurt England’s Ashes chances

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

Picking Ollie Pope over Jacob Bethell to bat at No 3 against India is the fair call but that does not make it the right one. There is a difference between the two and it threatens to haunt England as they stand on the cusp of a run of 10 Test matches that Rob Key, the director of cricket, admitted this week would be used to “define this era”.
I don't know how Clive Lloyd and I are still alive, we were party animals

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

He was at Lancashire between 1968 and 1976, signing alongside his great friend Clive Lloyd. In a golden era of domestic one-day cricket, Engineer won the Gillette Cup four times and the Sunday League twice.
I don’t know how Clive Lloyd and I are still alive, we were party animals

1 week ago | msn.com | Nick Hoult

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I crashed the car as George Best and I were chatting up a blonde

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

"Time and again he bowled a batsman with a googly and I said: 'Chandra, you tried to bowl a leg-spinner there, didn't you?' And he'd say: 'Yeah, yeah.' He was a very humble man. And I think he was the greatest spinner in the world. I could read him because I saw him grip the ball and saw the way it left his fingers. I saw it in the air and off the pitch.