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/ 9 years agoPringle column: Aussies may now regret winding up Virat Kohli
By Derek Pringle Spats between Australia and India are not unknown on cricket fields though this one does smack of much...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Bowling the Yanks over with a cricket metaphor
Once a byword for fairness and moral certitude, cricket was used to illustrate the exact opposite by Eddie Jones, England’s rugby...
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/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – No Ice Age for me, i’ll be happy to stay in Stone Age
We’re hearing more and more about dead people being deep frozen in ice, and then woken up when scientists have found...
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/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Shropshire – 1973 Minor Counties champions
By Neil Fissler Shropshire had never won the Minor Counties Championship before the summer of 1973 – and they have never...
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/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Spin-king Monty deserved a bit more love back home
You’ve got to hand it to the Aussies. Recruiting Monty Panesar to mentor their spinners in advance of the Test tour...
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/ 9 years agoCounty Archives – Essex 1979
Champions who smiled their way to the title Paul Edwards continues his fascinating series on the county teams by looking at...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Let’s toast forgotten men from Botham’s summer
It was the biggest occasion of its kind, an attempt to get all living England cricketers male, female and disabled to...
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/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Don’t quit the game Sid, you’d make a top coach
Ryan Sidebottom will hang up his spikes at the end of the year, having had a wonderful career in both county...
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/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Freddie’s dream becomes a living nightmare
When Andrew Flintoff was at the peak of his powers, thrilling England fans with his rumbustious presence and match-changing exploits with...
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/ 9 years agoCounty Archives – Northamptonshire 1976
Mushtaq’s mavericks stake their claim… The summer of 1976 was a scorcher and it was also one when Northamptonshire played some...
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/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Getting to the Root of English captaincy pitfalls
Twenty reasons why the ECB chose Joe Root as their new England captain. 1. He’s a jolly good batsman. 2. He’s...
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/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – We can’t leave all players to learn on own…
Coaching has changed in the past decade or so with more onus being on players to work things out for themselves,...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Not many tweaks needed to keep Tests relevant
One of the slogans coming from England’s new captain and his deputy, is their mission to make people “fall in love...
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/ 9 years agoCounty Archives – Gloucestershire 2000
Russell’s one-day kings who took no prisoners While a Championship continues to elude them, no team could touch Gloucestershire at the...
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/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – England captains always end up in a stew
It’s not easy being a leader, a thought which doubtless occurred to the other Captain Cook when he was being lightly...
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/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Players will be pushed to new limits on pre-season tours
Kent are currently over in the Caribbean playing some good competitive cricket, while Nottinghamshire and Hampshire are set to fly over...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Winter jobs were not always constructive
WHILE most modern professional cricketers have year-round contracts to stave off February’s chill, many of their predecessors had to spend the...
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/ 9 years agoYoung Gun – Big decision is in good hands with Andrew
Andrew Thomas – Middlesex Wicketkeeper THERE’S a big, possibly life-changing, decision on the horizon for multi-talented sportsman Andrew Thomas, but he’s...
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/ 9 years agoSimon Sweetman column – Time to focus on our own development
The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events WHILE the news about what goes on at the ICC seems to change...
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/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – I blame Goochie for these keep-fit regimes
There was a time when an England fielder’s method of preventing an extra run involved nothing much more strenuous than an...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Capturing the soul of cricket and its legends
Has there been a game or sport more celebrated by art than cricket? From the 17th century country house artists painting...
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/ 9 years agoCounty Archives – Surrey 1952
The year when Bernie really shone among the stars… Surrey had an army of leading lights in their 1952 title winning...
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/ 9 years agoSimon Sweetman column – At last, I could stop feeling like Mr Creosote…
The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events After two ODIs between England and India had produced 1,453 runs (and 42...
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/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – If this is supposed to be fun, then I’m Napoleon
You can scarcely go to a rugby match these days without watching some disorientated participant being ordered off for a head...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Stop run fests by bringing back the bouncer
England’s recent one-day series in India produced three high scoring and reasonably close games, of which Eoin Morgan’s team lost two...
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