Jofra Archer returns to England cricket test team for first time since 2021
It was at the home of cricket where Archer exploded onto the international scene, playing a starring role in England's victory over New Zealand in the 50-over Cricket World Cup final in 2019 — soon after switching nationality.
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Preston vs Liverpool: Kick-off time, TV, live stream, team news, h2h results, prediction, odds
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Please, someone in American television, break the McEnroe grip on tennis microphones. Belching up words is not broadcasting, a craft John McEnroe never learned. Johnny Mac has become an entitled air quaffer, a lapsed past master turned trifler who refuses to work at it. Witness how he tends to butcher the names of anyone not ranked in the top five. As for younger brother Patrick, he burps out banalities with the same offbeat affect as his bro, apparently believing it passes for alert observation. You need Pepto after listening to them for two hours. Coupled in the ESPN broadcast booth at Wimbledon this week, they have given the viewer about as much information as a couple of air compressors, complete with the irritating hissing. Here they were on a quality match in the round of 16 between Novak Djokovic and Alex de Minaur, whose appellation wandered through Johnny Mac's mouth variously as di Miner, de Minhour and di Minoor before settling in as de Manure. 'Highly skilled play there from Djokovic.' 'Playing at a very high level out there today.' 'He's found an extra gear here early in the fourth.' 'Who would have thunk it?' 'He's a goat, this legend.' 'He has come to play.' 'It's not how you start; it's how you finish.' Thanks for those insights, boys. Tennis is a gorgeous game deserving of more eloquence than this. There is a raft of truly talented voices out there who apply themselves and enhance the audiovisual medium with real insight. Andy Roddick, Jim Courier, Jimmy Arias, Chris Evert, Andre Agassi, Darren Cahill, Mary Carillo and Lindsay Davenport are far more steeped in this beautiful game than the McEnroes, more aware of rising young players from around the world, more alert to tactics and technique, and more articulate. It's an annual frustration to come down from their voices to the yah-yahing of the McEnroes. Responsibility for this lies with cowed producers and frictionless network chiefs who have enabled the McEnroe monopoly despite their shallow blandness — and who have allowed John in particular way too much diva license. He calls virtually all of the top matches, from ESPN to NBC to TNT, and cuts out to do cameos for BBC and Tennis Channel, without doing a lick of ostensible homework. The most spoiled actress didn't behave any worse than McEnroe at the French Open last month, when he was actually late to the set on the day of the men's final. His chair was vacant for long minutes as Evert and Tim Henman covered for him. When he finally arrived, Evert teased that he's 'always late' and Henman said they had waited hours for him. He retorted on air, 'That's your problem.' When the elder Mac isn't burying the viewer in superficialities, he blithely and unembarrassedly mangles foreign pronunciations, apparently because he imagines it is part of his ineffable charm. 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Novak Djokovic is ready to face Jannik Sinner and the other young guys at Wimbledon
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