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They've all come to the party - Toby, Roland, even Michelle might show her face later! Marvellous scenes.

I'm glad the selectors have picked Westley. The purpose of the England Lions is to blood players internationally in the longer format of the game and it would have been perverse had he been overlooked after bagging a ton vs South African batting at 3 just 3 weeks ago. It is important that the...

What worries me about Hales is that if you are that brilliant at hammering the ball to all parts then it stands to reason that he's likely to lack the real quality we need at test level, which is reining it in and gritting it out. It is a crying shame his county colleague James Taylor was ruled...

For me England's No. 3 for the next test is a no-brainer. We already have a man who bats at 3 who bagged 108no against a decent Surrey attack in June and followed it up with scored 106no for the England Lions against the Saffers just 3 weeks ago. It should be added that this was against a...

We've been there with Hick and Ramprakash before. It doesn't matter what you do in county cricket if you haven't got the technique / temperament for test cricket.

Why am I not surprised that this isn't likely to go into a fifth day? Both teams have been guilty in this series of piss poor 4th innings, capitulating with more than a day to spare. Where is the grit and grind traditionally associated with test cricket? Nobody seems to be able to pace...

The batsmen you list had to routinely face some fearsome pace bowlers the like of which do not exist in test cricket today, e.g Lillee, Imran Khan, Holding, Garner, Roberts, Marshall, Walsh, Ambrose, Donald, Pollock, Hadlee. 38.6 in today's money would barely have got you a test average of...