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Annie Chave
/ 12 months agoAnnie Chave: A Tour de Force
Annie Chave on the life-chain nature of friendly cricket tours My ‘good old days’ belong to the innocence and freedom of...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoDerek Pringle: Spraying Josh Tongue offers chaos and threat
The first pitch of the series with some green grass on it threw up some extraordinary cricket across the first two...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoMark Butcher: Where are the rock-star spinners?
It’s been a tough summer for the slow men, in a tough era full stop. Take Ravindra Jadeja. It has been...
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England News
/ 1 year agoHandshake-gate: Much ado about nothing
We shouldn’t be surprised any more that the scenes at the end at Manchester would be blown up out of all...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke AKA ‘The Grumbler’: You are not alone at the cricket
Richard Clarke says county grounds are the perfect place for conversation One of the most arresting and widely-praised football videos of...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: Lionesses roar as cricket misses a trick
A record crowd at The Oval, but cricket still needs to follow football’s example, writes Katya Witney The first women’s T20...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoDarren Stevens: Get up, get down: The search for a dippy spinner
The latest rounds of Championship cricket brought a lot of success for English spinners. Rehan Ahmed and Tom Hartley both took...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoLauren Winfield-Hill: T20 Blast on upward curve but problems persist
Tier Two finals day was good last weekend, although disappointing from a team perspective. Fair play to Middlesex, they played extremely...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoDerek Pringle: Liam Dawson’s return poses questions for the Ashes
One Test after an eight-year hiatus, with probably another to follow at The Oval next week, is a small sample size,...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoMark Butcher: Jofra Archer adds extra spice to sizzling England vs India series
The Lord’s nailbiter was a throwback of a Test match where conditions dictated the way the game was played. England realised...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoDarren Stevens: Umpires must crack the whip – but we love a bit of needle
Just before tea on that extraordinary final day at Lord’s, in the midst of an astonishing rearguard innings that nearly pulled...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: Lack of real jeopardy is masking Blast advances
Katya Witney says that while the first year has been solid, a format tweak would have added excitement It’s not so...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoLauren Winfield-Hill: Time slipping away for confused England
Having lost in Southampton and with just two games of the international summer left, the biggest worry now for England is...
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Featured
/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: Cricket must create its day in the sun
About now, I expect my son will be exploring long-forgotten corners of our garage in search of the golf clubs he...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoDerek Pringle: Joys of Jofra Archer tempered by long road ahead
Until two days ago Jofra Archer had not bowled a ball in Test cricket for four years, a litany of injuries...
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Ben Gardner
/ 1 year agoBen Gardner: Wiaan Mulder can’t do right for doing wrong
Ben Gardner salutes South Africa’s stand-in captain for his grand gesture Wiaan Mulder had just had one of the best days...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoLauren Winfield-Hill: Sloppy England need to sharpen up
It’s hard to pinpoint one factor behind England’s losses to India, because none of it has been good enough. There have...
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Annie Chave
/ 1 year agoAnnie Chave: A walk in York epitomises cricket’s outground charms
The recent journeys I have made to cricket outgrounds across the country have added a new and delightful dimension to my...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoDerek Pringle: Flogged bowlers highlight perils of Bazball
The blueprint for winning Tests is a simple one for Ben Stokes and his England team. Play on shirtfront pitches that...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoDarren Stevens: Time to give the County Championship a showcase final
A little less than three weeks ago, South Africa were crowned Test champions after defying the odds to beat Australian in...
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Featured
/ 1 year agoSLOW DOWN! SPINNERS’ PACE SHOWS ENGLISH ANXIETY
LAUREN WINFIELD-HILL Lauren Winfield-Hill on England’s struggling bowling unit and rigid thinking England weren’t at the races at all in the...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: Shackled England still haunted by Winter demons
England appear unable to shake off the hangover from a confidence-shattering winter, writes Katya Witney England Women’s losses in the first...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: Let’s bin the Kookaburra experiment, and fast
The first principle of experimentation is that you must not fool yourself,” said the eminent scientist, Richard Feynman. “And you are...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoMark Butcher: Ben Duckett leads the way for clinical England
We’ve become used to Ben Stokes’ side achieving the unthinkable, but what an incredible win that was at Headingley. India dominated...
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Ben Gardner
/ 1 year agoBen Gardner: India’s County Championship love-in a bonus for everyone
Ben Gardner on how Indians players are flocking to club and county Headingley may have witnessed England and India play out...
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