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K-Samachar ksmachar https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/ 9 <img width="680" height="510" src="https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/uploads/news_image/news_106_1.jpg" alt="" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" />  New Zealand v England: England must make changes for second Test - Jonathan Agnew Sadly I don't think this England team is capable of producing anything miraculous at the moment.England fought hard on the final day of the first Test. Most of the batsmen got in and they didn't bat recklessly but this is only the 10th time New Zealand have beaten England in a Test match, and that puts the result into context.It is exactly five years since England managed to save the game on the final day against New Zealand thanks to Matt Prior's century but a repeat performance always felt unlikely.The players have played lot of cricket and have been away a long time but they have got to lift themselves for one last effort in the second and final Test.If they fail to win in Christchurch it will cap a very disappointing tour.TMS podcast: Agnew and Swann review the final dayEngland have not learned from Ashes - SwannPodcast: Aggers' journalist panel discusses the seriesSmith fined and banned for ball tampering'England have to change something'I think England should play spinner Jack Leach in the second Test instead of Moeen Ali. They have to change something.They could also play fast bowler Mark Wood, instead of Craig Overton. Seamers Stuart Broad and James Anderson are as good as ever but there is no variety - there is no X-factor. In this Test England had nothing that was going to surprise New Zealand. It is a very one-dimensional bowling attack.They need someone that Joe Root can throw the ball to who is different to the four seamers who are running in and bowling the same sort of stuff.People will say it is the batting that has let England down in this match so why am I talking about changing the bowlers? To an extent I understand that, but England don't have the batting personnel to bring in.They have got to go with what they have got. I don't see any point bringing in James Vince, for example.I said before the match that England had a bagful of points to prove and I think all those question marks remain.Opener Mark Stoneman played a really poor shot to get out in the second innings, Alastair Cook looks like he is struggling, Moeen doesn't look like taking a wicket and the other bowlers I have already talked about.One player who cannot be knocked for his performance on the final day was Ben Stokes.There is a lot of talk about whether he should be here but that is for other people to decide. Today he worked very hard for his 66 until he succumbed to another short ball from Neil Wagner, who seems to wind people up and make them play reckless shots.As a whole New Zealand looked a real Test team.I said their bowling attack with the pink ball under lights could be better than England's and so it proved. Trent Boult is a wonderful bowler with good pace, bowls a good length and swings the ball, while their batsmen got in and scored hundreds. https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/106/New-Zealand-v-England-England-must-make-changes-for-second-Test-Jonathan-Agnew https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/106/New-Zealand-v-England-England-must-make-changes-for-second-Test-Jonathan-Agnew 2017-04-10 <img width="680" height="510" src="https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/uploads/news_image/

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" alt="" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" />  Zimbabwe series set to be Mashrafe as captain https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/100/Zimbabwe-series-set-to-be-Mashrafe-as-captain https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/100/Zimbabwe-series-set-to-be-Mashrafe-as-captain 2020-02-13 <img width="680" height="510" src="https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/uploads/news_image/news_82_1.jpg" alt="" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" />  Australia ball-tampering row: What is it and why is it so serious? https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/82/Australia-ball-tampering-row-What-is-it-and-why-is-it-so-serious https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/82/Australia-ball-tampering-row-What-is-it-and-why-is-it-so-serious 2017-04-10 <img width="680" height="510" src="https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/uploads/news_image/news_81_1.jpg" alt="" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" />  New Zealand v England: England must make changes for second Test - Jonathan Agnew Sadly I don't think this England team is capable of producing anything miraculous at the moment.England fought hard on the final day of the first Test. Most of the batsmen got in and they didn't bat recklessly but this is only the 10th time New Zealand have beaten England in a Test match, and that puts the result into context.It is exactly five years since England managed to save the game on the final day against New Zealand thanks to Matt Prior's century but a repeat performance always felt unlikely.The players have played lot of cricket and have been away a long time but they have got to lift themselves for one last effort in the second and final Test.If they fail to win in Christchurch it will cap a very disappointing tour.TMS podcast: Agnew and Swann review the final dayEngland have not learned from Ashes - SwannPodcast: Aggers' journalist panel discusses the seriesSmith fined and banned for ball tampering'England have to change something'I think England should play spinner Jack Leach in the second Test instead of Moeen Ali. They have to change something.They could also play fast bowler Mark Wood, instead of Craig Overton. Seamers Stuart Broad and James Anderson are as good as ever but there is no variety - there is no X-factor. In this Test England had nothing that was going to surprise New Zealand. It is a very one-dimensional bowling attack.They need someone that Joe Root can throw the ball to who is different to the four seamers who are running in and bowling the same sort of stuff.People will say it is the batting that has let England down in this match so why am I talking about changing the bowlers? To an extent I understand that, but England don't have the batting personnel to bring in.They have got to go with what they have got. I don't see any point bringing in James Vince, for example.I said before the match that England had a bagful of points to prove and I think all those question marks remain.Opener Mark Stoneman played a really poor shot to get out in the second innings, Alastair Cook looks like he is struggling, Moeen doesn't look like taking a wicket and the other bowlers I have already talked about.One player who cannot be knocked for his performance on the final day was Ben Stokes.There is a lot of talk about whether he should be here but that is for other people to decide. Today he worked very hard for his 66 until he succumbed to another short ball from Neil Wagner, who seems to wind people up and make them play reckless shots.As a whole New Zealand looked a real Test team.I said their bowling attack with the pink ball under lights could be better than England's and so it proved. Trent Boult is a wonderful bowler with good pace, bowls a good length and swings the ball, while their batsmen got in and scored hundreds. https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/81/New-Zealand-v-England-England-must-make-changes-for-second-Test-Jonathan-Agnew https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/81/New-Zealand-v-England-England-must-make-changes-for-second-Test-Jonathan-Agnew 2017-04-10 <img width="680" height="510" src="https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/uploads/news_image/news_80_1.jpg" alt="" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" />  Australia's Steve Smith steps down as captain of IPL side Rajasthan Royals https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/80/Australias-Steve-Smith-steps-down-as-captain-of-IPL-side-Rajasthan-Royals https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/80/Australias-Steve-Smith-steps-down-as-captain-of-IPL-side-Rajasthan-Royals 2017-04-10 <img width="680" height="510" src="https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/uploads/news_image/news_79_1.jpg" alt="" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" />  New Zealand v England: Nothing learned from Ashes defeat - Graeme Swann https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/79/New-Zealand-v-England-Nothing-learned-from-Ashes-defeat-Graeme-Swann https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/79/New-Zealand-v-England-Nothing-learned-from-Ashes-defeat-Graeme-Swann 2017-04-10 <img width="680" height="510" src="https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/uploads/news_image/news_78_1.jpg" alt="" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" />  Ashes: Is cricket the hardest sport to win away from home? Perhaps former England spinner Graeme Swann has a point. Has Test cricket become too predictable?Take England as an example. Their win-loss record at home since 2012 is 23-11 in their favour. Away from home it plummets to 23-7 in the opposition's favour.That record looks like getting even worse after England were bowled out for 58 by New Zealand on day one of the first Test in Auckland on Thursday.England have not lost an Ashes series at home since 2001. They have won outright only once in Australia since 1986-87.After England fell to a 4-0 loss in their latest venture down under - coming on the back of a 5-0 rout in 2013-14 - Test Match Special's Ed Smith surmised: "I don't think this series leaves you with much optimism about this format. I am concerned about how predictable a lot of the cricket has been."So has Test cricket's 'predictability' made it boring? And is cricket the hardest sport in which to win away from home?Test cricket is actually no more predictable than it has ever beenWhile it is true that home teams hold the advantage in Test cricket - for a variety of reasons analysed below - it's not a new phenomenon.The percentage of Test wins earned by visiting sides has not changed drastically over the years.It has stayed between 20% and 30% for the past 100 or so years. If anything, away teams are winning more - victories for the touring sides in the 2010s is 27% compared to 23% in the 90s.Take away the anomaly of just 6.8% of wins for the away side in the calendar year of 2013 and that figure rises even higher - to above 30%.So what are the reasons for the home advantage?There are many, but one of the most obvious is to do with pitches.Put simply, the pitches in each of the 10 Test-playing nations offer a different challenge for both batsmen and bowlers.In Australia and South Africa, the ball bounces more than it does anywhere else. Hence fast bowlers are king. https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/78/Ashes-Is-cricket-the-hardest-sport-to-win-away-from-home https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/78/Ashes-Is-cricket-the-hardest-sport-to-win-away-from-home 2017-04-10 <img width="680" height="510" src="https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/uploads/news_image/news_77_1.jpg" alt="" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" />  Kevin Pietersen: An idiosyncratic genius who could be both divisive and dazzling You can read a little more into the fact that Kevin Pietersen appears to have waved goodbye to professional cricket after scoring seven runs for Quetta Gladiators in a six-wicket defeat by Islamabad United.Banished from the England set-up four years ago, denied a valediction on the biggest stage even as he prepared to take revenge with a memoir as destructive as any of his best innings, Pietersen has been travelling the world with his Spartan KP Rhino bat in hand ever since, on the moneyed margins of the game and doing rather nicely out of it all the same.At 37 he would hardly be cutting his career short. The lure of playing Peshawar Zalmi in Lahore may not have been enough to keep a young thruster interested, let alone a man who won four Ashes series and was once described as the most complete batsman in modern cricket.Cricket is no longer his obsession. He has announced on social media that he intends to put his energies towards saving the endangered rhino, in which case a few odd-toed herbivorous ungulates can expect to be upstaged.Vaughan praises 'retiring' PietersenPietersen announces Big bash retirementThere were more reliable cricketers than Pietersen. There have been stars more liked by their team-mates and less susceptible to hubris. But few England players in the past 40 years have had the same electrifying effect on the game in this country, and few have dominated their stage in the same way.Pietersen was different in temperament to the other two you might put on that brief list, Ian Botham and Andrew Flintoff. You always got the sense that he was admired rather than loved by England's support, his bristling confidence not leavened by the same self-deprecation as Flintoff nor his public pronunciations as no-nonsense 'white van man' as Botham's.Like those two he made a poor England captain. Idiosyncratic genius works better set free rather than shackled by responsibility. Yet he was impossible to ignore when he came to the crease and he was unforgettable when he found his sweet groove.Great players don't just score great innings. They change games and win matches.That was what Pietersen did with his finest displays: the 158 against Australia at The Oval in that glorious late summer of 2005, his blistering 227 in Adelaide during the Ashes triumph of 2010-11, the 202 not out against India at Lord's in 2011 that helped make England the top-ranked team in Test cricket.Pietersen could seem like the embodiment of the old cliche about cricket being an individual contest in a team game. Barring a change of heart, he will finish his career having played for 14 teams, including Sunfoil Dolphins, St Lucia Stars and Rising Pune Supergiant, which reflects his personality and its impact as much as the mercenary nature of modern global cricket.Despite the English mother and the tattoo of the three lions on his left triceps, you were never quite sure where he belonged. Neither was he."There is a massive trust issue between me and Kevin," admitted Andrew Strauss, who had captained him in two of those Ashes wins, when he first took over as England's director of cricket in May 2015.Strauss could have been speaking for several others whose task it was to manage a man once dubbed 'The Ego' by Australia's close-in sledgers. Sometimes it seems remarkable that he made it past 100 Tests for England, a maverick with the air of permanent impermanence.He could be surprisingly insecure, a trait which could unfortunately present as arrogance. It was there in one of his most famous comments of all, during the home series against his native South Africa in 2012: "It's not easy being me in that dressing room."It was all there in one of his retirement tweets on Saturday: "Just been told that I scored 30,000+ runs which included 152 [fifties]& 68 hundreds in my professional career. Time to move on." https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/77/Kevin-Pietersen-An-idiosyncratic-genius-who-could-be-both-divisive-and-dazzling https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/77/Kevin-Pietersen-An-idiosyncratic-genius-who-could-be-both-divisive-and-dazzling 2017-04-10 <img width="680" height="510" src="https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/uploads/news_image/news_76_1.jpg" alt="" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" />  Australia ball-tampering row: The key questions facing Australian cricket https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/76/Australia-ball-tampering-row-The-key-questions-facing-Australian-cricket https://kriscent.com/product/ksamachar/home/news_description/76/Australia-ball-tampering-row-The-key-questions-facing-Australian-cricket 2017-04-10