Matches (17)

ENG vs SA (1)

UAE Tri-Series (1)

CPL (2)

WCPL (1)

Duleep Trophy (2)

ZIM vs SL (1)

County DIV1 (5)

County DIV2 (4)

ENG

414/5

(20.5/50 ov, T:415) 72

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Schedule Report Series

PAK

141/8

AFG

(15.5/20 ov, T:142) 66

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Schedule Table Report Series

Ed Smith

Are West Indies bound upwards at last?

Asking them to regain the heights of the 1980s would be too much, but they can still be a force in international competition

10-Oct-2012•Ed Smith

How do you play cricket without becoming a machine?

The challenge for most cricketers- and other sportsmen - is to retain their personality while getting better at the game

26-Sep-2012•Ed Smith

The art of captaincy: catching the mood of the moment

Leadership of cricket teams involves a fair amount of a sort of luck

12-Sep-2012•Ed Smith

South Africa's bookends rank them up with the best

They aren't just a decent side who managed to make it to No. 1

29-Aug-2012•Ed Smith

The master of being himself

Andrew Strauss doesn't pose, shout, or try to shove all his players into one mould. Being his own man may just be his greatest virtue

15-Aug-2012•Ed Smith

How did England go from great to godawful?

It's a disease that afflicts all teams these days - of too much cricket and too much travel

01-Aug-2012•Ed Smith

What's so wrong with negative fields anyway?

When England set cautious fields they are called tactically naïve; but they win

04-Jul-2012•Ed Smith

Were things really better back in the day?

While nostalgia can skew anyone's judgement, it's just as much a fallacy to think that all aspects of a sport are always improving

20-Jun-2012•Ed Smith

The Bresnan effect

What makes some players talismans, in whose presence their teams play better than they would otherwise?

06-Jun-2012•Ed Smith

Coaches don't win matches

They may be the ones who front up at the post-match press conferences, but they're not really in control of the matters they answer questions about

09-May-2012•Ed Smith

Who'd have thunk it?

Predicting how a player is going to perform has always been a tricky business

25-Apr-2012•Ed Smith

When is poor form just randomness?

How can we tell coincidence from errors of approach and application? It's a question of judgement

11-Apr-2012•Ed Smith

What makes cricketers superstitious?

In a game where so many variables are outside a player's control, the value of superstition as a crutch cannot be overestimated

28-Mar-2012•Ed Smith

A gentleman champion of timeless steel and dignity

A whole strand of the game - a rich vein that runs through cricket's poetic heart - departs the scene with one of the all-time great No. 3s

13-Mar-2012•Ed Smith

It's all up to Morgan

For much of his career, Eoin Morgan has had the door opened welcomingly wide for him. No longer

29-Feb-2012•Ed Smith

Captaincy: not what you might think it is

Leadership isn't a quality, or about field placings. It is an effect that a player has on a group

15-Feb-2012•Ed Smith

The problem's not Test cricket, it's bad Test cricket

It is the product that matters. If the interest in Test cricket is declining, it is because the standard is not all that high

02-Feb-2012•Ed Smith

What we could learn from Warner

Far from being the downfall of Test match technique, T20 may actually help batsmen get into good habits for the long form

18-Jan-2012•Ed Smith

Why newcomers steal the show

Debutants seem likelier to succeed these days than their established team-mates. It wasn't always this way

05-Jan-2012•Ed Smith

The grittiest XI

Some players have talent; others make the best of themselves with sheer bloody-minded hard work

21-Dec-2011•Ed Smith

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