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'The first hour is everything' - Stuart Broad relives his 8-15
"It’s the most fun I’ve had in an hour on a cricket field. I’ve never bowled better"
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"It’s the most fun I’ve had in an hour on a cricket field. I’ve never bowled better"
Root enjoyed a record-breaking 2021
“There was no one to guide me or coach me or show me how to grip the ball”
"Few batsmen can claim to have withstood the four-man West Indian pace attack"
"He single-handedly almost stilled the nascent Test career of Graeme Hick"
"It all came together in England"
"A man of great self-possession and talent"
"From the start he has been a prodigy"
"Cook’s values – old-fashioned duty and service first, never mind the ego – were exemplified until the end"
The England batter made history in 2009 when she became Wisden’s first woman Cricketer of the Year