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/ 9 years agoYOU CAN’T AFFORD TO TAKE EYE OFF THE BALL
PAUL NIXON As the Champions Trophy continues today with New Zealand’s clash against Australia, the next round of County Championship matches...
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/ 9 years agoPHENOMENAL SANGA’S AN ALL-TIME GREAT
A QUICKword on Kumar Sangakkara: what he has achieved over the past few weeks is phenomenal. He fell just 16 runs...
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/ 9 years agoENGLAND PINNING HOPES ON BIG BEN’S RECOVERY
PETER HAYTER The grimace on the face of England’s talisman was bad enough. The expression into which Andrew Strauss’ features would...
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/ 9 years agoJOYCE IS SO RIGHT TO PUT HIS IRISH TEST BID FIRST
PAUL NIXON www.paulnixoncricket.com Ed Joyce has retired from county cricket to focus on his Ireland career and, while there may be...
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/ 9 years agoENGLAND MISSING A PLAYER OF TRESCO’S TALENTS
DEREK PRINGLE More than any other cricketer in the modern era still able to ply their trade in the middle, England...
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/ 9 years agoPACE…IT’S WHAT WE ALL WANT TO SEE IN THE GAME
MARTIN JOHNSON As I looked up to see one of the world’s deadliest fast bowlers about to enter his delivery stride,...
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/ 9 years agoPLAYERS MUST EMBRACE WHAT IS A SPECIAL TOUR
NEIL MANTHORP SOUTH AFRICAN WRITER AND BROADCASTER South Africa’s first post-isolation tour of England remains, 23 years later, a career if...
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/ 9 years agoFond farewell to Misbah and Younis, two of the very best
While Yasir Shah celebrated wildly to mark a first Test series victory for Pakistan in the West Indies, all eyes instinctively...
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/ 9 years agoIT’S BACK, BUT THE FORMAT IS STILL NOT RIGHT
PAUL NIXON www.paulnixoncricket.com The County Championship is back this weekend, and no doubt the players will be chomping at the bit...
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/ 9 years agoAUSSIE PAY ROW IS BOUND TO BLOW OVER
THERE’S a lot going on in Australia at the moment with players threatening to strike over pay disputes, but we have...
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/ 9 years agoA CLAIM OF TOP BILLINGS IS OFTEN PERILOUS
PETER HAYTER When Sam Billings told them and us last week that the rest of the world of cricket is “petrified”...
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/ 9 years agoWHY IPL MAY SOON BECOME ENGLAND’S PROBLEM
DEREK PRINGLE One board believes that its fortunes in white-ball cricket lie with embedding players in the Indian Premier league, the...
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/ 9 years agoBOUNCE… IT PUTS SKIDS ON THE BEST…
DEREK PRINGLE There wasn’t much to be gleaned from England’s two 50-over matches against Ireland, which Eoin Morgan’s team won at...
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/ 9 years agoRESPECT CHARTER IS MODEL FOR THE FUTURE
ENGLAND’S new playing kit, from New Balance, was launched earlier this month with a welcome return for the cable-knit sweater, a...
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/ 9 years agoCOUNTY RULE No.1: IT ALL HAS TO STOP FOR LUNCH
MARTIN JOHNSON There are certain things in life which are best not attempted for the first time without having an experienced...
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/ 9 years agoPLAYING AT HOME IS GREAT, BUT KEEP FOCUSED
PAUL NIXON As the Champions Trophy draws ever nearer, it makes me remember the only international tournament that I was ever...
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/ 9 years agoNEW ROAD EMBODIES THE TRUE VALUES OF CRICKET
PETER HAYTER You had to have been there.While the biggest names in world white-ball cricket were slogging themselves bandy in the...
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/ 9 years agoAlison Mitchell column – Sledging ain’t all that heavy, he’s my brother
It is much less common to find cricketing siblings who have played against each other, especially at international level.
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/ 9 years agoPrepare the flood barriers!
DOES elite level cricket have flood insurance? Following on from the situation at Durham late last year and the actions taken...
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/ 9 years agoBig Bash shows the way for free-to-air exposure
WAS disappointed to read the paragraph in Joshua Peck’s front page article (TCP, April 28) once again espousing that all games...
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/ 9 years agoOverseas stars or county pride?
Class: Kumar Sangakkara DEREK Pringle was right in his piece on how priceless experience is (TCP, April 28). There is no...
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/ 9 years agoSuper Stokes is a world beater
Game-changer: Ben Stokes BEN STOKES is living up to his price tag in the IPL, and his time in India is...
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/ 9 years agoDoes new T20 spell the end for tourists?
NOW that the ECB’s proposed new Twenty 20 competition has effectively been given the go-ahead, will this mean the end of...
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/ 9 years agoFranchise cricket has edged out members
LAST Autumn, The Cricket Paper kindly published my letter in which I vowed I would walk away from cricket if the...
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/ 9 years agoSpring day and a chilly response
WHAT great fun it is watching cricket in April and May – especially the 50-over games! As we sit there freezing...
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