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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Jennings and Daws sensible picks for England
Keaton Jennings and Liam Dawson have been picked to replace the injured duo of Haseeb Hameed and Zafar Ansari in England’s...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Gloves labours lost – Or a comedy of errors
The first cricket related Christmas present I ever got was a scorers’ book, although I’d only got through one pencil (mainly...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoCounty archives – Durham 2013
When Onions and the boys showed that Northeast spirit… Continuing our new series, Paul Edwards rewinds only three years to relive...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Lose outgrounds and we start to lose touch
Essex’s decision not to play cricket at Colchester next season looks like the further erosion of a tradition that goes back...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Never get too high on praise or low on criticism
The media will always have a role to play in cricket. Whether it’s good things being written about you and your...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Didn’t bat, didn’t bowl, didn’t field, but, hey, was I man of the series?
When it comes to the Ashes, it is not uncommon for both countries to turn to dry humour in times of...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoCounty archives – Lancashire 1956
Title drought could have ended had Edrich led throughout Continuing our new series, cricket writer Paul Edwards looks back on the...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoAssociates – Why it’s time for the emerging nations to follow baseball’s lead
Tim Wigmore’s weekly look at the game below the Test-playing nations If a tree falls in a forest and no one...
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/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Praise England for having courage to go
England’s cricketers may have left Bangladesh with their tails between their legs but in one important respect at least they travelled...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – How Boycs and Edrich set TMS off on flights of fancy…
In common with many others, I wearily stretched out a hand to locate the bedside radio button last week, only to...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – We’ve got to start grinding down the opposition
This series in India is one of England’s biggest in recent times. If they pulled a victory out of the bag,...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Rousing speeches work but so does laughter
Chandika Hathurusingha is not given to tub thumping but his words to Bangladesh’s cricketers, as they stood poised between victory and...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDream Team – James Taylor
Alastair Cook I think he is one of, if not the most, talented cricketers in the world right now. He’s a...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoSimon Sweetman column – Fagg’s amazing record stands unchallenged
The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events From time to time we might sit back and consider those cricketing records...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Touring used to be fun – ask Gower about it!
One of the great bonuses of playing cricket for England is getting to see all those new, exciting and exotic places....
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Aussies on the ball in bid to end Ashes failures
Australia’s government has declared it will not do business with the UK until it has left the European Union but one...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – We should have given knackered Cook time to recover
It was absolutely typical of Alastair Cook to want to be with his players for the start of the series in...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoTristan Lavalette column – Simply no winners amid Hughes inquest acrimony
Undoubtedly it has been a miserable start to the Australian cricket season. That is not a reference to Australia’s wretched recent...
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/ 9 years agoMarcus North column – I’m backing Australia to bounce back and beat South Africa
We are only a couple of weeks away from the start of Australia’s international summer, with South Africa’s tour shaping up...
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/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Focus on cricket, England, but enjoy Asia, too
The Test series has just started in Bangladesh and it is going to be a long time away from home for...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoEveryone will benefit if Celts get invite to the new T20
Tim Wigmore’s weekly look at the game below the Test-playing nations A revolution is coming to English domestic cricket. Many will...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Who needs style if you can play it to the max?
There have been many fast bowlers down the years – Holding, Lillee, Hall – with actions graceful enough to set to...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Culture of game not to blame for this tragedy
The dead cannot speak, but if they could I’m not sure Phillip Hughes would have approved of the rancour that has...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMarcus North column – Spin in India can make the best look foolish
I only played two Test matches on the sub-continent, against India back in 2010. In the first Test at Chandigarh, I...
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/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Duck, that Anderson glare is like Sybil’s umbrella!
James Anderson has rarely been compared to the wife of Basil Fawlty. But I’ve only ever seen the look he fired...
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