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/ 9 years agoFORGET THE PAST, BALLANCE CAN’T BE IGNORED
PAUL NIXON Gary Ballance has started the season in superb form and if the England Test squad for this summer was...
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/ 9 years agoWHY I RESPECT ZAFAR’S DECISION TO QUIT
WHILE the retirement of Zafar Ansari came as a shock, it’s perhaps no surprise that he has made this decision in...
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/ 9 years agoCRICKET IN THE 1980S! IT WAS AN X-RATED CLASSIC…
MARTIN JOHNSON Back in the 1970s, it was nigh on impossible to go to the cinema without seeing a film about...
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/ 9 years agoWE’RE IN NEEDOF SMOOTHIE TALKING MONTY…
PETER HAYTER I’m not a great fan of smoothies, but the concoction Monty Panesar recently served up to his 148,000 Twitter...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Force is strong as Gayle cashes in again
Gayle was T20’s poster boy right from the start, nailing his short-form colours to the mast with his infamous, “I wouldn’t...
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/ 9 years agoFORCE IS STRONG AS GAYLE CASHES IN AGAIN
DEREK PRINGLE By posting 10,000 runs in Twenty20 cricket, Chris Gayle has taken a format still lingering in novelty firmly into...
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/ 9 years agoCOAD’S SUCCESS CONFIRMS VALUE OF 2ndXIs
PAUL NIXON www.paulnixoncricket.com It was another brilliant and fascinating weekend of County Championship action with Yorkshire bowler Ben Coad arguably the...
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/ 9 years agoFROM W.G. TO BEEFY, WE’RE AN AD MAN’S DREAM.
MARTIN JOHNSON Twitchers are an excitable bunch, for whom a fleeting glimpse through the binoculars of a lesser spotted, pink crested,...
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/ 9 years agoINVISIBLE MANCAN’T RIVAL THIS BAIRSTOW MYSTERY
PETER HAYTER Where was he? Jonny Bairstow did not feature for Yorkshire in their opening two Championship games PICTURE: Getty Images...
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/ 9 years agoAUSSIES IN FOR LONG HAUL BUT WE’VE HAD FREDDIE’S PEDALO …
MARTIN JOHNSON Readers of a certain vintage will remember the old Charters and Caldicott propaganda films of the early Forties, which...
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/ 9 years agoLET’S HOPE LEACH CAN THRIVE WITH HIS NEWACTION
DEREK PRINGLE Remodelled: Jack Leach showed off his new action for the MCC in the Champion match against Middlesex PICTURE: Getty...
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/ 9 years agoHAMPSHIRE WIN PROVED WISDOM OF KOLPAK STRATEGY
PAUL NIXON www.paulnixoncricket.com What a brilliant first round of matches that was in the County Championship. All counties are in action...
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/ 9 years agoLAST CHANCE TO LAND THIS UNWANTED PRIZE
DEREK PRINGLE England have yet to win a 50-over global tournament but if they do happen to clinch the 2017 Champions...
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/ 9 years agoRETRO FASHION AND HOW I MISSED OUT ON BEING A VOGUE MODEL
TRADITIONALISTS will be heartened by the return of the cable knit sweater to the England team, following a nineyear hiatus when...
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/ 9 years agoOLYMPIC STADIUM CAN GET TILLS RINGING
ENGLAND will also hold the original limitedovers trophy, the World Cup, in 2019, with plans to stage what it sees as...
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/ 9 years agoTHERE’S NO REVERSING CHANGE IN THE GAME AFTER THIS
PETER HAYTER For those still unaware of, or who have made it their business to ignore, the reality that tumultuous change...
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/ 9 years agoLET’S NOT BE TOO KWIK TO EXPECT THIS TO WORK WITHOUT TV…
AS part of its push to attract the next generation of kids to the sport, the ECB has come up with...
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/ 9 years agoMONTY AND THE DALEKS COULD PUT A CHECK ON TIDE OF T20
MARTIN JOHNSON The Test series between India and Australia was one of the more enjoyable of recent years, the pendulum swinging...
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/ 9 years agoUNI GAMES ARE STILL RELEVANT AND MUST REMAIN SO
PAUL NIXON With the County Championship beginning today, the counties have been warming up with clashes against University teams, and they’re...
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/ 9 years agoDURHAM MUST MAKE SURE THEY PLAY IT COOL
DURHAM will be frustrated not to be playing in the opening week but they need to make sure they channel their...
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/ 9 years agoMORE INCENTIVE NEEDED TO PLAY FOR THE VICTORY
DEREK PRINGLE As the England and Wales Cricket Board strive to attract a new audience and inject some vigour into the...
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/ 9 years agoYORKSHIRE MY TIP BUT ESSEX CAN SPRING A SURPRISE
PAUL NIXON WWW.PAULNIXONCRICKET.COM My excitement is certainly building, and I’m sure all of yours is too. The most exciting time of...
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/ 9 years agoWHERE TO FIND COLD COMFORT AND LOADS OF ROOM
MARTIN JOHNSON Don’t worry about Brexit, or whether triggering Article 50 will mean the end of the world as we know...
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/ 9 years agoA GAME LOST TO SPORT’S MONEY MAKERS…
PETER HAYTER For those of us who have been banging on about the absolute necessity of getting live cricket – any...
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/ 9 years agoTALESFROM THE PRESS ROOM WITH OTTERS, JIM AND CMJ…
MARTIN JOHNSON There’s still time for Joe Root to change his mind. As indeed he still might if he’s been tuning...
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