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Doing a few events to mark the paperback launch of Test Cricket: A History - The Sunday Times Sports book of The Year for 2025 - if anyone wants to come and ask any questions
Tim Wigmore
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Tim Wigmore
@timwig
โ๏ธ journalist for @TelegraphSport ๐ Author of Test Cricket: A History, Times Sports Book of the Year - geni.us/TestCricket - and other books
Joined March 2013
- Look forward to seeing more cricket between evenly-matched sides when India meet Scotland and Namibia later in the Super 12s
- Cricket for the sake of broadcasting obligations and this is what you get
- India won 18 games out of 19 across the 2023 World Cup and 2024 T20 World Cup. An amazing streak after years of frustration in ICC events
- AB de Villiers survived 220 balls for 33 to save the Adelaide Test in 2012 - and then thumped 169 off 184 to help win the Perth Test a week later. The batter who could do everything; a player of incredible range, skill and versatility.
- Varun Chakravarthy's journey - from making his debut in the Tamil Nadu Premier League, aged 25, to being in India's World Cup squad 4 years later - is remarkable. It shows how the IPL, and the state T20 leagues beneath it, are democratising Indian cricket.
- From 27 off 28 balls on a very flat track in Adelaide in the 2022 semi-final, to 57 from 39 balls in far more challenging conditions in the semi-final in Guyana two years later: Rohit Sharmaโs performance has embodied the transformation of India, leading his sideโs cultural shift
- Tim David is going to be very in demand in the IPL auction - essentially, in the Kieron Pollard role. And hard to think he wonโt be in Australiaโs team come this yearโs T20 World Cup
- Liftoff in the Cricket World Cup - shame about all the empty seats
- No Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant or Mohammad Shami all series yet India are still 3-1 up: a sign of just how hard they are to beat and why they've now won 17 straight series at home
- The lengths that India will go to just to make sure R Ashwin doesn't play a Test this series
- The 20-team T20 World Cup is delivering on its promise to feel like cricket's first genuinely global event
- Jasprit Bumrah - an absolute artist. And, with all the talk about how T20 can hinder players in Test cricket, illustrates how the very best players bring in T20 skills to enhance their Test game
- With Jonny Bairstow, Liam Livingstone & Odean Smith, Punjab Kings have a very clear identity with the bat: prioritising six-hitting, the same method Birmingham Phoenix used with the same analyst - Dan Weston - in the Hundred