Cricket

</a ></a >Sport News</a > 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @rgdewinter  @davidjdewinter Brothers Richard & David de Winter present a cricket special this week as they discuss the Ben Stokes Affair, England's Ashes squad and their chances this winter down-under. Also featuring a round-up of the 2017 County season as well as some terrible cricket-related puns.

Growing up as a sports fan in the 90’s, there were 3 things you could always rely on…Man Utd winning the Premier League, the England football team winning nothing and Australia winning the Ashes. So in 2005, when Michael Vaughan led England to a first Ashes win since 1987, it gave us early millennials a reason to believe in English cricket. After an up and down few years, I was feeling optimistic about the chances of a third Ashes win...

Video footage leaked by The Sun of Ben Stokes throwing punches outside a Bristol nightclub has allowed the public to determine Ben Stoke's fate, a leading cricket analyst has claimed. Writing in a post on The Cricket Blog Miles Reucroft points out that the England international has been found guilty by his employees already due to the public outcry, and not by a judge and jury in their role as moral arbiters. The ECB included Stokes in the Ashes squad and allowed him to retain...

</a ></a >Sport News</a > 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter (Sports Editor) @TLE_Sport  @rgdewinter  @davidjdewinter This week's episode focuses on qualifying for the World Cup.  The boys discuss the chances of the home nations as well as the looking at the other potential qualifiers from around the globe, including the possibility of Syria reaching the finals in Russia next year.  Also, the brothers give their take on the transfer window and the Premier League, revealing their...

England and the West Indies clash in the third and final test at the home of English cricket tomorrow. The second test at Headingley produced a hugely entertaining match that was eventually won by the tourists, after an inspired batting display from Kraigg Braithwaite and young Shai Hope. This victory for the Windies came as a surprise after they were torn apart in Edgbaston, losing 19 wickets in a day to lose by an innings and 209 runs. This sets...

Back in November 2016, as England prepared to face India in a tough test series, much had been anticipated about their new opener, Haseeb Hameed. The young Lancashire opener, who was just 19 when he made his debut, had showed a lot of promise at county level, scoring 1,129 runs, averaging 52 in the County Championship Division One that summer, meaning a lot was to be expected when he made is Test debut And he didn’t disappoint - scoring a...

The inconsistency of this England team continued with defeat to West Indies in the Second Test at Headingley. Many would have expected England to cruise to victory after such a lacklustre performance by West Indies in the first test. To everyone’s surprise though, West Indies showed up and won an enthralling test match by 5 wickets after batting brilliantly on Day Five. Shai Hope showed batting class by scoring his second century of the match, along with the dependable Kraigg...

Geoffrey Boycott admitted he had been "done like a kipper" after falling for a hilarious prank live on air. The BBC cricket pundit was commentating on the England v South Africa test match when his co-commentator Jonathan Agnew managed to convince him that his 100th hundred wasn't scored at his home county ground of Headingley but in Faisalabad, Pakistan. The prank was based on a phoney press release which claimed to downgrade the statistics of all runs and wickets for the...

I was driving through Andalucía on Sunday, from Malaga to Ronda, meandering along the A-366 with a familiar sound in my ears; an England collapse. The only unusual thing it seems, was the setting. The breath taking, if arid, sights of the Parque Natural Sierra de las Nieves and its empty roads, rather than an asphyxiated English motorway. Test Match Special, for so long an English institution, is very much a global entity in today’s technological society. No more waiting...