Buttler: IPL gave me huge amounts of confidence
Jos Buttler has credited his stint in this season's Indian Premier League (IPL) for his impressive form for England in the recent two-match Test series against Pakistan.
Root: Headingley victory shouldn’t ‘paper over the cracks’
England Joe Root took pride in the way his fought back after a difficult week to win the second Test against Pakistan at Headingley but does not want the performance to "paper over the cracks" that still exist in the team.
Arthur ‘incredibly disappointed’ after Headingley defeat
Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur says he was "incredibly disappointed" with the way his team folded against England in the second Test at Headingley.
England hammer Pakistan to draw Test series
England thrashed Pakistan by an innings and 55 runs in the second Test at Headingley on Sunday to make the sure the two-match series was drawn 1-1.
England’s batting has got really, really bad and there are no obvious solutions
England are bad and the takes are hot. The defeat to Pakistan at Lord’s, completed with indecent yet entirely fitting haste on the fourth morning of a match the tourists had dominated from the start, felt unusually significant. Lord knows England have lost matches before. Lord knows they’ve collapsed before. But there was something undeniably […]
