The 160th Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
The Final Word Cricket Podcast
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The Importance of Empathy in Cricket
Stokes is excellent man management and would you be capable of that pre his break from the game I don't know but he has used that brilliantly as a captain. Australia haven't won in England since 2001 mainly because they haven't played the moving ball very well or any lateral movement either through the air off the seam so Stokes wants fast and flat pitches which actually probably brings Australia's attack more into it. It could lead towards a barnstormy series here later in the year I mean it feels like the the best set up for ashes we've had well since 2005 really it does. And yet through all of this the FTP last year was harrowing reading if you read between the lines
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