4-Day Franchise Series - Titans (RSA) vs Dolphins (RSA) on 2023-02-26

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Root 'like a fine wine' as he passes 14,000 Test runs

Former England bowlers Steven Finn and Phil Tufnell pay tribute to Joe Root as the England batter became the second man after Indian great Sachin Tendulkar to reach 14,000 Test runs.

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England are a mess in this Test: isn’t it about time the Brendon McCullum era ended? | Andy Bull

Head coach seems to have led a charmed life since finishing his playing career but England are currently shambolic off the field as well as on it At the end of the fourth day’s play here the abiding question wasn’t whether England could complete a record-breaking fourth innings chase or even if they could bat the match out to secure the draw. It was why everyone is still watching an England team coached by Brendon McCullum six months after he ought to have moved on from the job.The way we tell it in this country, McCullum’s backstory as England coach begins on 2 January 2013 when, in his first Test as New Zealand’s Test captain, the team were bowled out for 45 by South Africa at Cape Town. Legend has it this was the watershed Test. In a management meeting that evening, McCullum laid out his ideas about the way the game should be played. The hard-charging, happy-go-lucky approach that has characterised England’s cricket in the past four years was born right here, when, New Zealand’s coach, Mike Hesson, said, McCullum first empowered “to do the job the way he wanted it done”. Continue reading...

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