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Ed Smith, the intellectual outsider, falls victim to competing agendas
Head coach, chief selector, unlikely figurehead: Chris Silverwood is now the unassailable top dog
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Head coach, chief selector, unlikely figurehead: Chris Silverwood is now the unassailable top dog
How can England’s best cricketers survive better in such conditions?
“Why, when it's the first Test against India, one of the great sides, aren’t we sending our best team?”
"Cluelessness was all the rage in ’93. This was England, doing cricket, in Waugh time"
"We had a pretty similar approach, me and Tuffers"
"Players who laughed in the face of disability and proclaimed: 'Tis nothing but a scratch, sir!'”
Silverwood has facilitated a smallish upturn in the five-day game
"Jonny Bairstow deserves more respect"
"I always knew that I could make a really big score in a one-day game"
"It’s a game of fine lines and you need to make the most of your opportunities"