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• England's rotation policy about the 'bigger picture', insists Jimmy Anderson

  21-02-2021 18:53
  
  Fast bowler set to return for third Test in Ahmedabad‘I am feeling good and fresh and ready to go again’Jimmy Anderson has admitted England’s rotation policy can be “frustrating” but the 38-year-old recognises the benefits as he looks to prolong his career.Anderson took five wickets as England won the opening Test against India in Chennai at the start of the month but was rested for the second match - a 317-run defeat on the same ground. England’s record wicke
  
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• England's rotation policy about the 'bigger picture', insists James Anderson

  21-02-2021 18:53
  
  Fast bowler set to return for third Test in Ahmedabad‘I am feeling good and fresh and ready to go again’James Anderson has admitted England’s rotation policy can be “frustrating” but the 38-year-old recognises the benefits as he looks to prolong his career.Anderson took five wickets as England won the opening Test against India in Chennai at the start of the month but was rested for the second match - a 317-run defeat on the same ground. England’s record wicke
  
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• Ravichandran Ashwin, the professor of cricket who always stays ahead of the game | Anand Vasu

  21-02-2021 13:00
  
  The hero of India’s victory over England in the second Test is an obsessive on a constant quest to reinvent himselfSome years after Jagmohan Dalmiya, the veteran cricket administrator, had finished up at the top of the food chain with the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the International Cricket Council, he was asked about retirement plans.“But, if I don’t run cricket, what would I do?” he was supposed to have asked, in answer. The story may be apocryphal, but i
  
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• Ravichandran Ashwin, the professor of cricket who always stays ahead of the game

  21-02-2021 13:00
  
  The hero of India’s victory over England in the second Test is an obsessive on a constant quest to reinvent himselfSome years after Jagmohan Dalmiya, the veteran cricket administrator, had finished up at the top of the food chain with the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the International Cricket Council, he was asked about retirement plans.“But, if I don’t run cricket, what would I do?” he was supposed to have asked, in answer. The story may be apocryphal, but i
  
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• Ravi Ashwin, the professor of cricket who always stays ahead of the game

  21-02-2021 13:00
  
  The hero of India’s victory over England in the second Test is an obsessive on a constant quest to reinvent himselfSome years after Jagmohan Dalmiya, the veteran cricket administrator, had finished up at the top of the food chain with the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the International Cricket Council, he was asked about retirement plans.“But, if I don’t run cricket, what would I do?” he was supposed to have asked, in answer. The story may be apocryphal, but i
  
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• Not cricket: religious divide threatens a last bastion of secular India

  21-02-2021 11:15
  
  Allegations against Wasim Jaffer of favouritism raise fears that anti-Muslim sentiment is infecting the gameIt is often described as India’s greatest unifier, a sport that – at least on the field – has been insulated from the religious schisms that have long divided the country.But in recent weeks cricket’s position as one of the final bastions of a secular India has come under attack, as the anti-Muslim sentiment that has been on the rise in India under the ruling Hindu
  
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• Jonny Bairstow should make England return to ease burden on Joe Root | Ebony Rainford-Brent

  21-02-2021 09:00
  
  England are too reliant on their captain so I would bring in Bairstow at No 3 for the third Test against IndiaEngland are in Ahmedabad with the series tied at 1-1 with two to play and a day-night Test to come that might favour their seamers – we don’t know how the pink ball will react to the floodlights, but if anyone’s going to get it moving it’s Jimmy Anderson. It will also get soft quicker and tends to go dead after 20 overs, which means Ravi Ashwin should get less bou
  
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