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Old master Gooch offers hope for modern great Root in battle against lbws

Batting is all about solving problems, and the grand old man of Essex backs the England captain to find a way past this one – just like he did

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‘The cycle repeats’: England’s troubles with spinners are leaving a generation behind

Dom Bess is one of many in a long line of England spinners to struggle for a sustained run in Test cricket. Why is there no lasting solution?

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Clicky Ponting, viral catches, and the strange new era of amateur cricket streams

Livestreaming services such as FrogBox give grassroots players their big moments for posterity, but Saltburn saga shows how digital age brings tricky double edge

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Biryanis, bhajis and braais: diverse culinary culture is at the heart of cricket

No other game would stop at a critical moment for a sit-down meal, but for cricket, lunch and tea are sacred moments that define the game

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Teenager Sooryavanshi from ‘a different planet’ but superstardom not guaranteed

Fifteen-year-old sensation has sent Jasprit Bumrah over the ropes but how he confronts lean patch will be key

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‘That day was life-changing’: Miles Jupp on how Ashes climax fuelled incredible blag

Series in 2005 deepened Miles Jupp’s love of cricket and somehow landed him a brief press role

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Cricket’s Tetris calendar is a recipe for player burnout and fan apathy

T20 series between South Africa and New Zealand highlights schedule that is increasingly hard to keep up with

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‘It was a crazy time’: why big auction paychecks don’t always equal superstardom

Graham Napier’s IPL career amounted to a solitary game but the all-rounder has no regrets about how things turned out

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Going for gold? Why China’s female cricketers may benefit from Olympic aim

The Cricket Research Network was told how the sport is perceived in China and why the women’s side is seen as the national team

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Ricky Ponting’s prescient call and the joy of being a cricket soothsayer

Data informs many decisions now but Australia legend showed how some players just have a knack for reading the game

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Nimble or nervous 90s? Cricket maths show best approach to scoring a century

Stats tell us batters have less reason to be anxious in the 90s than common lore suggests, though the pain and fear of falling short is all too real

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Bradman’s greatest hour: how Australia came from 2-0 down to win the Ashes

England team on tour are unlikely to mirror the comeback orchestrated by the legendary batter in the 1936-37 series

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From jaffas to the corridor of uncertainty – revel in cricket’s rich language of bowling

The act of bowling is simple, the words used to describe it resplendent with metaphor and imagery

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Stokes’ England have reminded us all that cricket is meant to be fun

Bazball has been infuriating at times but never forget how bad England were before the Brendon McCullum era

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Why the first ball of the Ashes is both an end and a beginning

From Zak Crawley hitting Pat Cummins for four to Rory Burns’ duck, the opening delivery is seen as a tone-setting prophecy for the series ahead

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Sophie Devine’s impact on women’s cricket should be measured in more than statistics

The New Zealand legend played with joy and fun, but was also a true fighter who spanned eras in the women’s game

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Speed thrills: from Donald to Archer, why pace is a spectacle like no other

In a modern game peppered with sixes and slanted towards batters, we need the raw beauty of fast bowling more than ever

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‘I pray no one lives a life like mine’: Afghan women dream of freedom and cricket

Women’s rights have disappeared under the Taliban and more must be done to support athletes in exile

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‘They’re like time machines’: the endless magic of cricket scorecards

What may look like an impenetrable column of unexplained figures can reveal plenty of eccentric tales

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‘I’ll bat anywhere for England’: in-form Jordan Cox confident of making the step up

The Essex wicketkeeper-batter, currently dazzling in the Hundred, has the self-belief he can put past setbacks behind him

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Tom Curran’s sledging added rare intensity to Hundred spectacle

With on-field wars of words it is often a fine line between a genuinely pithy one-liner and cringeworthy stag-do bore

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Rehan Ahmed’s technicolour technique deserves a show on Ashes stage

The Leicestershire all-rounder is back on form and would be an exciting addition to England’s squad this winter, said his coach at Leicestershire

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Gambhir may bristle but injuries, not substitutes, are a key part of cricket

Players battle through, sometimes they fade away, sometimes they come back stronger. It’s all part of the game

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West Indies turn to Lara and co after record Test low, but future looks bleak

Teams can rebound from abysmal innings yet, after their 27 all out against Australia, the Windies are losing hope

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Dear cycling: a letter and a warning from cricket’s golden free-to-air summer in 2005

The last Tour de France on ITV is a stark reminder of the final terrestrial Test summer

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