Following on from reviews of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 here are a few more moments to savour
By Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket Blog
Crack! Roar! At 10.59am on 16 June at Edgbaston, nobody was queuing for a bacon roll and a coffee. Most had been in their seats for 30 minutes at least, a febrile mood going viral around the concrete bowl already living up to its reputation for housing England’s most fervent supporters. All it had needed was Ben Stokes to say, “We’ll have a bat” for fans to be out of their seats, war cries filling the air, the anticipation already dialled up to 11. It couldn’t possibly live up to this could it?