Daniel Norcross

Daniel Norcross is a BBC Test Match Special Commentator

Why England’s Ashes defeat is so painful

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England’s most successful Ashes series Down Under for 15 years has somehow come to be seen as its most calamitous. England won a Test match, and competed for large periods in three of the other four. Yet many England fans are left wondering what might have been. Defeat in this manner is much more devastating

What Australia’s tabloids make of England’s Ashes failure

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No doubt even the cricket averse among you will be aware at some level that the England team is currently undergoing its traditional four yearly mauling at the hands of gleeful Australians under unforgiving, sun-drenched skies Down Under. Fans back home are enduring miserable nights, pock-marked by false hope, fever dreams and regret for engaging

Can Ben Stokes save The Ashes?

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England cricket fans rejoiced on Monday at the news that few saw coming. It was not their side’s comprehensive victory over reigning T20 World Champions West Indies at the weekend that had champagne corks popping and hope for a renaissance after a less than impressive summer coursing through the veins of the Barmy Army. Rather,