Andy Bull
Andy Bull is a senior sports writer for The Guardian.
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Six Nations squads are decimated by injury: rugby must heed the warningsWorkload is up, wages are up, and severe injuries are up – rugby union can’t keep explaining away the number of absent players by saying it is the nature of the game. It never used to be -
Caster Semenya and Dutee Chand run ragged by IAAF’s moving goalpostsCaster Semenya and Dutee Chand will race at the Commonwealth Games in April but their fight for the right of hyperandrogenic athletes to compete is far from over -
England’s Test demise is no surprise as T20 generation follow the moneyEngland’s victory at the MCG showed the difference between the Test and one-day teams, and where the priorities lie for players for whom the red-ball game is no longer the pinnacle -
Soporific Ashes series may have been attritional but it still sells with easeThe dead rubbers were harder to enjoy but while English TV audiences were limited, the paying public in Australia lapped it up and the hosts will do likewise in 2019
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From Korea to Russia, 2018 set to show again that sport is politics by other meansThe Winter Olympics, World Cup and Commonwealth Games will all have an unavoidable backdrop that reminds us again that all international sport is political -
Beer, arrows and a hell of a Christmas party: a world darts night at Ally PallyThe PDC says world championship is festive pilgrimage for fans because of ‘atmosphere created to go along with the show players put on up on the oche’ -
The Spin’s best Test cricket XI of 2017From painstaking David Warner via sensational Shakib Al Hasan to rampant Kagiso Rabada, meet the top Test players of the year -
Why does county cricket always get the blame for England’s failings?The ECB is an easy target after losing the Ashes but skewing the domestic game to produce more spinners and favour limited-overs cricket looks to have backfired
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