Mike Holmans

Head to Head

A captain establishes his right to lead his players by doing important things which merit his players’ respect

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Caught napping

All the pre-series talk, both in England and in the Caribbean, was of how England were expected to win, as the form book would predict

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Anyone for cricket?

England start as favourites, a position they usually dislike but will have to learn to cope with if they are ever to fulfil their stated ambitions

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

The Irreplaceables

I will not be surprised if Sachin Tendulkar is replaced fairly quickly

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Afterword

Pietersen will no doubt be very disappointed, but I expect him to get over it quickly

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Everyone needs a coach

Not just anyone can coach

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

India's one-two punch

The most striking thing to me about India’s performance in the pair of Tests against England was that they have finally solved their opening batsman problem

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Merry Quizmas

The answers to the eight clues are all Test cricketers, one from each of the eight main Test-playing countries

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Three's Company

The main function of an England number three is to serve as the focus of the complaints about the fragile batting for a decent period before being dropped or moved to somewhere more congenial

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

The most efficient strike bowlers in Tests

A stats analysis to identify the most efficient strike bowlers in Test history

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Cricket at its best

This game was due to be remembered as the one which defied the terrorists, but that will now be but background colour adding extra lustre to the tapestry which should be woven in commemoration of one of Test cricket’s greatest epics

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Focus Anderson

If England are to do well, there will need to be big contributions from several players

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Unsafe is the new safe

What 9/11 did to us all was make it clear that nowhere can be completely safe

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

England's batting disorder

If Pietersen does come in at three, as happened at Cuttack, they then start weeping and wailing that Owais Shah should have come in at three because he is the man in form

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Come together

I am convinced that each individual in the England team is a good enough player

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

First things first KP

The bolder course would be for the captain to take the job on

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

From the Stanford to the serious

For the first time in living memory the Indians will not be five times as experienced as our lot and may lose their heads once or twice and give England a chance to blow an easy win rather than being crushed as per usual.

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

True colours

There is still a long way to go before we achieve a society in which ethnicity is irrelevant in Britain, but little by little we are moving towards the more perfect union

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Much ado about nothing

I find it hard to work up the degree of passion that drives this event’s opponents to apoplexy

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

It's a rich man's world

What is less easy to fix is Stanford himself, who seems the sort whose main topic of conversation is how awesome he is, which makes the timing of this event unfortunate, because this month the market in awesomeness has been cornered by Barack Obama.

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