Former England cricketer-turned-commentator Kevin Pietersen has suggested to Joe Root s team that a score of 150 playing bold strokes is much better that being bowled out cheaply defending and getting caught behind the stumps.The opening Ashes .
This summer will mark the fiftieth anniversary of a significant tour, where the international matches were not granted Test and One-Day International status. Nonetheless it deserves acknowledgement for its importance to Australian cricket. It also featured individual performances by Garry Sobers and Dennis Lillee that are recognised as among the greatest ever on Australian soil. […]
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SIR – Lord Sumption has highlighted how our freedoms are being eroded. But is anyone in the Government listening?
Having extricated ourselves from the tyranny of the undemocratic European Union, we now face being enslaved by the tyranny of Covid fear.
Boris Johnson knows how to please a crowd, but does he have the courage and vision to avert the nation’s slide into totalitarianism?
Catherine Castree
SIR – Lord Sumption should know that the draconian restrictions on individual liberty during the Second World War were followed by a flowering of freedom and democracy such as this country has rarely seen. I have no fears about authoritarianism after lockdown.