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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Derbyshire – Benson & Hedges Cup finalists 1978
By Neil Fissler Derbyshire shocked the country in reaching the Benson & Hedges Cup final but preparation for their big day...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Old game springs to life just as T20 moves in for kill
Scientists have made a couple of important discoveries in the past week, but exciting though it is to think that there...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Work to be done for Essex to shake off yo-yo tag
The biggest challenge of promotion it seems, for those teams which manage it like my old county Essex, is adapting to...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMarcus North column – Nice work Dizzy… A top coach but also a top man
Yorkshire are on the hunt for a new coach with Jason Gillespie returning to his homeland, having gained massive popularity in...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Batty’s call-up sending out right message
There would have been a few eyebrows raised last Friday when the announcement came through that Gareth Batty had been selected...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Let’s face up to real perils of touring…
There seems to have been a fair amount of tut-tutting and eyebrow raising over Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales opting out...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoOutgrounds – Surrey
Tree-lined Guildford still able to deliver the festival fun for Surrey Dan Whiting’s journey through cricket’s more unlikely venues takes him...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Selectors can find that wow factor in Div Two
Is the selection of England’s international teams an art or a science? The fudged answer, with that old image of selectors...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Morgan’s no-show will cost him trust of Strauss
The decision of Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales not to tour Bangladesh prompted one columnist to evoke the spirit of Mr...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Botham! There’s an all-round talent for you Trev…
Every now and then, I find myself being overpowered by that dark and irresistible force known as ‘Fred Trueman Syndrome’. All...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoOutgrounds – Somerset
Somerset have cut back on road trips but Taunton has festival vibe Dan Whiting explains why traditional outgrounds of Somerset, like...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Tinker with the talent… but not too much
It was Pakistan’s parting shot, a swashbuckling T20 win over England that saw all their old characteristics of verve and swagger...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Surrey – NatWest Trophy finalists 1991
By Neil Fissler Surrey must have thought that they had one hand on the NatWest Trophy for the second time after...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – The Judge was our original master blaster!
It had to happen, but the fact that it took so long for someone to break Robin Smith’s record for the...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Jimmy’s switch is so much like King Javed’s
When they next come to film another re-make of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I’d like to suggest a new twist...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoOutgrounds – Nottinghamshire
When Notts were hosting Yorkshire there was often feud for thought Dan Whiting continues his nationwide tour of county cricket’s lesser...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – My class of ‘92 has edge over Morgan’s mavericks
Until the current England 50-over team began ripping up the record books, the general consensus was that the team which contested...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Sussex – 1993 NatWest Trophy runners-up
By Neil Fissler Ed Giddins admits the 1993 NatWest Trophy final against Warwickshire still causes him to wake up at night...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Will need for spin hasten end for big two?
Time waits for no man, particularly not fast bowlers, not even, statistically, with 680 wickets from 89 Tests together, the best...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Haves and have nots in county ground pageant
I have managed, through the admittedly devious process of bribing a Lord’s cleaning lady to secrete a microphone in the handle...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – England must take lead from Thorpe’s mindset
Few things bring as much sadistic pleasure in cricket as batsmen first getting bamboozled by a spinner then getting turned over...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoOutgrounds – Northants
Surely it’s time Northants took a spin out into the county again Dan Whiting continues his nationwide tour of the grounds...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – I’d love to go for the hat-trick with Tallawahs and build up my coaching CV
What a couple of weeks it’s been! Caribbean Premier League winners for the second time then a wonderful family holiday in...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Boards need to make the call not players
England’s cricketers have been assured that, should they choose not to travel to Bangladesh next month for the first leg of...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – I’m missing fast show but Agnew and Lloyd won’t be…
There is no finer sight in cricket than a genuinely fast bowler in full cry, mixing up the 100mph inswinging toe-crushers...
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