The ICC is not and has never been fit for purpose. As I tweeted yesterday, it is past time that responsibility for the game, Test matches most of all, be returned to the MCC.

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Honour the memory, courage, and sacrifice of No. 617 Squadron, RAF: ‘Après moi, le déluge’.

(Now to see if FGW can manage to get me up to Town, and TfL manage to get me to Lord’s. And England manage not to lose this Test, of course.)

Philander and Prior deserved their recognitions today for the two sides (man of the match / series). England need not hang their heads, either: indeed, I think we have seen a bright future unfolding already. England shall regroup and return, and all be well ( Read more... )

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Kevin Pietersen.

As of stumps today, Strauss & Cook are now one century-stand behind Hobbs & Sutcliffe.

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(Once again, no, you pervs, not Tom Daley.)

James Rhodes, the pianist, and Stephen Hough, the pianist, are having a fascinating debate chez Torygraph.

Also, the Kindle edition of The Annotated Wind in the Willows is now out, at the British, US, and German Amazon sites.

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Abbreviated morning session, early tea owing to bad light, and now rain pissing down.

Mind you, 127/2 is better perhaps than England altogether deserve.