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Eoin Morgan spoke of his pride after answering concerns over his technique and temperament at Test level with a stunning, unbeaten 125. Morgan became only the second Irish-born batsman to score a Test hundred for England after Fred Fane achieved the feat in 1906, and insisted he had never doubted his ability to translate his sparkling one-day form into the Test arena. Read More

With most of the big free-to-air sport – World Cup, Wimbledon, the Open – finished, we now enter a kind of pending period before football starts again, a two‑week hiatus that enthusiasts and terminal nostalgists like to call the cricket season. Read More

Pit the same two teams against each other in different places or in different weather and you’ll get a different match. It’s what makes Test cricket more intriguing than the upside-down picture of a crow with human legs in my local pub. Read More