Our summer club season just began last week. Now at the beginning of each season, I set myself some sort of goal. Two seasons ago, I began an experiment to reinvent myself as a front-line legspinner/tailend batsman .

You get the feeling England just let the Ashes slip through their fingers yesterday. At 1 for 100, they were poised to set an imposing first innings total. Instead, all their batsmen got starts then threw their wickets away

The 4th Test was hailed as the 2009 Ashes decider. Of course it wasn’t – it never was going to be barring an English victory. But now, we come to the 5th Test which most definitely is the decider

Well it worked last time is presumably the selectors line of thinking in handing South African Jonathan Trott a debut in England’s most important match for four years.

Over the last week, a dossier on the English cricket team by Justin Langer was leaked to the press. Here are some of the highlights: “England players work very hard on shining the ball after the lacquer is gone. They use Murray mints religiously to get it to shine up.” “Because they play so much cricket, as soon as it gets a bit hard you just have to watch their body language to see how flat and lazy they get…

It’s hard to recall England ever having a worse day of Test cricket. Maybe Adelaide Day 5 in 2006 .