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England’s Signs of Growth

In fertile land, a seed will sprout, germinate and grow into a fully-fledged, strong and mature offering until it is ready to come to fruition and harvest. With the right mix of nutrients, water and sunlight, the plant will burgeon from its small, humble beginnings as that meagre seed and transform into mighty vegetation. England’s …

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Damp End to English Summer

So that’s it. The English International cricket season has finished. We have sat through five months of rollercoaster cricket, twitter-exploding controversies and selection decisions that reflected Kim Kardashian in a nightclub. But after a pleasing start, with the competitive New Zealand Tour and Champions Trophy, and an even more filling middle in which the eagerly …

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One Day, England Will Get It Right

It’s the form of the game where England have never really found the right balance or tactics to be consistently good. OK, they have been in five limited overs major finals, but have they ever won? And the majority of those runner-up ‘successes’ came in an era of lesser competition both numerically and ability wise. …

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