Michael Atherton
Michael Atherton
Michael Andrew Atherton OBE is a broadcaster, journalist and retired England international cricketer. A right-handed opening batsman for Lancashire and England, and occasional leg-break bowler, he achieved the captaincy of England at the age of 25 and led the side in a record 54 Test matches. Known for his stubborn resistance during an era of hostile fast bowling, Atherton was described in 2001 as a determined defensive opener who made "batting look like trench warfare" and he had several famed...
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My suspicion, in England at least, is that the more charitable view will prevail.
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English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so badly at One-day cricket.
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I can't imagine he would have stayed up so late the night before a Test match.
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He (Modi) says that his television stations would be in profit after the first year of a four year deal and that 'side-deals', as he puts it, were an integral part of the negotiating process.
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If the England team don't want to experience another hellish week like the one that lies ahead of them now, with only pride at stake, they had better get used to the idea.
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He's a very smart bowler, and he plays to the gallery as well which adds to the whole picture,
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It's the amount of spin and drift that he gets, plus his accuracy. That's what sets him apart,
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You don't enjoy it when he gets you out and makes you look a monkey. But if you get runs against him, you enjoy that because you know you've certainly earned them.
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Inexperience can be used as an excuse or an opportunity. It is as an excuse that it is most often trotted out England's management ... India, throughout, this series, have used is as an opportunity.
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Concentration is sometimes mistaken for grumpiness.
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The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
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The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?
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Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.