There was a special moment shortly before play began at Trent Bridge when Stuart Broad, 353 days into his retirement from professional cricket, unveiled a...

There was a very good reason why Ben Duckett did not hit his first ball of the day for four: he simply could not reach it, resulting in that Test-match...

‘In my opinion he is a very good player of the short ball. He certainly scores off it. It is one of those weigh-ups as a bowling captain if you go down the...

John Stephenson, the former Essex and England batsman, remembers his Test debut all too well. He should do, given it was the only Test match he played, but...

Ben Stokes the bowler is back, roaring in at Lord’s without so much as a hobble from that wonky knee. He blasted out some trademark energy-sapping marathon...

‘Pass the parcel. That’s sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on,...

It was not only the departure of a great cricketer that made everyone misty-eyed on Friday at Lord’s. It was also, subliminally perhaps, a realisation of what...

West Indies were nine wickets down and the captain, Ben Stokes, and Gus Atkinson were chatting at the end of the bowler’s mark. In the background at wide...

Sometimes in the smallest moments so much can be revealed. Jamie Smith was on 49. A fifty on Test debut, undoubtedly a hugely significant milestone, beckoned,...

At 4.16pm, a strange scene unfolded at Lord’s. A full house rose as one to salute James Anderson as he walked out to bat for what was likely to be the last...