Is England's six obsession the best way forward?
England have displayed a swagger not seen very often from them in limited-overs cricket
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
England have displayed a swagger not seen very often from them in limited-overs cricket. They're talking about hitting sixes, a testosterone-choked type of cricket that might have evolved out of some unsmilingly moustachioed New York basement of the late-1970s. England are at last doing something extreme. But will it work? Barney Ronay wonders. Read on in the Guardian.
The six can still shed new light on cricketers you felt you already knew well. Against Ireland Luke Wright could be seen making an unexpected American-style whooping noise mid-pitch after crunching a straight hit into the sightscreen, the sort of noise you might hear in a 1980s movie set in a rowdy hard-living country and western-ish bar just before a violent brawl breaks out, perhaps involving Patrick Swayze doing stiff-backed kung fu.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo