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English cricket’s eight winners and eight losers from a truly chaotic summer
Confirmed
In Short: McLaren's Lando Norris was ruled out of meaningful on-track running during the first day of Formula 1 testing at the Madrid circuit due to a gearbox failure.
Elsewhere, cricket's England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has cleared both players of wrongdoing, despite their suspension for a Test match by the Cricket Regulator.
The summer has been a mixed bag for England's men's team, with Ollie Robinson and Ben Stokes among those experiencing varied fortunes, as they prepare for a potential whitewash against Pakistan at Edgbaston.
What's confirmed
- Elsewhere, cricket's England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has cleared both players of wrongdoing, despite their suspension for a Test match by the Cricket Regulator.
- The summer has been a mixed bag for England's men's team, with Ollie Robinson and Ben Stokes among those experiencing varied fortunes, as they prepare for a potential whitewash against Pakistan at Edgbaston.
What's still developing
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- The first day of proper Formula 1 on-track running at the Madring didn't produce the predicted chaos.
- Sadly, McLaren couldn't follow that rule as a gearbox failure ruled Lando Norris out of any meaningful running in FP2.
- A big opportunity to get the car and driver in the right window.
- Having scored a maiden Test century against Australia in Sydney at the start of the year, the 22-year-old’s Indian Premier League commitments meant he was short of red-ball cricket going into the New Zealand Tests, where he averaged 17.16 from No 3.
- A knee injury sustained during the India ODIs then ruled him out for the rest of the summer.
- Having lost the first series of the summer against New Zealand 2-1, England still look likely to whitewash their second opponents 3-0, as long as they see out a run chase of 130 when play resumes on Saturday morning.