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THE Top Six The month in cricket No.1

Flintoff's star quality puts him in frame for England top job • By endorsing Andrew Flintoff as an England head coach in the making, Rob Key reinforced what he believes makes a successful international cricket team, writes Andrew Miller

Team of the Month • Jo Harman selects a team of the standout performers from the last month, including three IPL centurions

What makes a Test cricketer? • With Rob Key making it emphatically clearwho he'll consider for Test selection, and who he won't, Mark Ramprakash considers the ingredients required to step up to international level

Five takeaways from England's tour of New Zealand • Heather Knight's side warmed up for their summer series against Pakistan and New Zealand, and September's T20 World Cup, by defeating the White Ferns in both white-ball formats. Katya Witney picks out the major talking points from the tour

THE TOUR

Kookaburra clips seamers' wings but meets Key's brief • The use of the Kookaburra ball for the first two rounds of Championship fixtures led to a stack of draws and back-breaking work for the seamers, but the trial was not without its merits, argues Lawrence Booth

NEWS CYCLE • Shaheen has reached his limit, says a column attributed to Ben Gardner

DEAN ELGAR FIGHT, LEADER, FRONTMAN, ESSEX MAN • Forced into retirement from Test cricket at the height of his powers, Dean Elgar is looking to rekindle his love for the game at Essex, but not before he's got some things off his chest

“The players are rightly pissed off”

RE:VIEW • Three writers have their say on the 'Impact Player' rule at the IPL, introduced in 2023, which allows teams to substitute a player from their XI with someone from their five-strong bench

Mailbox • In association with Chapel Down, the letter of the month receives a bottle of award- winning English sparkling wine - Chapel Down Brut. Based in Kent, Chapel Down is England's leading wine producer and the official sparkling wine of the ECB

THE COUNTY FILES • Covering each of the 18 first-class counties every month, including news, interviews and stats, as well as the oddities which make county cricket what it is

WCM PERFORMANCE SPECIAL • GROOVE YOUR GAME FOR THE NEW SEASON WITH EXPERT ADVICE FROM THE BEST PLAYERS AND COACHES IN THE BUSINESS, BEGINNING WITH A BATTING MASTERCLASS FROM ENGLAND'S TEST NO.3…

No 3 Could Bradman have been muzzled? • Next in our series exploring previously unseen data from the CricViz archive, Rob Smyth examines how opposition may have been able to keep The Don in check

Life begins at 40 (or above) • Ben Bloom reports on England's campaign at the inaugural Over-40s World Cup in South Africa, where a group of ambitious club players and a couple of notable former pros joined forces

Thinking outside the box • Following a recent study which suggests neurodiversity could be disproportionately high among elite athletes, Jo Harman speaks to three professional cricketers about the benefits and challenges that come with having ADHD

TRANSFORMATIONS • Next in our series, we pick out a handful of players who remodelled their role to outstanding effect

VIC MARKS • The affable, self-deprecating former England and Somerset spinner recalls Botham and Richards, winning the Sheffield Shield and life in the commentary box

Reaching for the Stars • Now into its eighth year, All Stars Cricket, and its junior partner Dynamos Cricket,...