Essex batsman Dan Lawrence will hope to cement his place in the England side with some good performances in India
NO doubt you, as I did, experienced a range of emotions on the morning of January 19. You woke up, checked the result in the final Test match in Brisbane, and then convulsed with laughter as you realized that Australia had lost, at home, to 11 Indian cricketers of whom you’d never heard. You’ll have chortled as a bowling attack that boasted roughly four caps and just over 10 Test wickets between them outclassed a fearsome Australian bowling unit. You’d have guffawed as a batting lineup lacking Virat Kohli outscored Steve Smith, David Warner, and Marnus Labuschagne. You would have wiped a tear of joy as you remembered that all this occurred at the ‘Gabbatoir’, Australia’s fortress, where they haven’t lost since 1988—then felt white-hot fear as you remember that India’s next victim is us.
On Friday, England begins a four-Test series at Chennai. It’s no exaggeration to say that, should England win, it would go down as one of our greatest overseas successes. Make no mistake, this Indian side is very, very good and made light work of Sir Alastair Cook and his men on England’s last visit in 2016, winning the series 4–0.
'Realistically, the only team that can beat India is India themselves'
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Save our family farms
IT Tremains to be seen whether the Government will listen to the more than 20,000 farming people who thronged Whitehall in central London on November 19 to protest against changes to inheritance tax that could destroy countless family farms, but the impact of the good-hearted, sombre crowds was immediate and positive.
A very good dog
THE Spanish Pointer (1766–68) by Stubbs, a landmark painting in that it is the artist’s first depiction of a dog, has only been exhibited once in the 250 years since it was painted.
The great astral sneeze
Aurora Borealis, linked to celestial reindeer, firefoxes and assassinations, is one of Nature's most mesmerising, if fickle displays and has made headlines this year. Harry Pearson finds out why
'What a good boy am I'
We think of them as the stuff of childhood, but nursery rhymes such as Little Jack Horner tell tales of decidedly adult carryings-on, discovers Ian Morton
Forever a chorister
The music-and way of living-of the cabaret performer Kit Hesketh-Harvey was rooted in his upbringing as a cathedral chorister, as his sister, Sarah Sands, discovered after his death
Best of British
In this collection of short (5,000-6,000-word) pen portraits, writes the author, 'I wanted to present a number of \"Great British Commanders\" as individuals; not because I am a devotee of the \"great man, or woman, school of history\", but simply because the task is interesting.' It is, and so are Michael Clarke's choices.
Old habits die hard
Once an antique dealer, always an antique dealer, even well into retirement age, as a crop of interesting sales past and future proves
It takes the biscuit
Biscuit tins, with their whimsical shapes and delightful motifs, spark nostalgic memories of grandmother's sweet tea, but they are a remarkably recent invention. Matthew Dennison pays tribute to the ingenious Victorians who devised them
It's always darkest before the dawn
After witnessing a particularly lacklustre and insipid dawn on a leaden November day, John Lewis-Stempel takes solace in the fleeting appearance of a rare black fox and a kestrel in hot pursuit of a pipistrelle bat
Tarrying in the mulberry shade
On a visit to the Gainsborough Museum in Sudbury, Suffolk, in August, I lost my husband for half an hour and began to get nervous. Fortunately, an attendant had spotted him vanishing under the cloak of the old mulberry tree in the garden.
