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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoOutgrounds – Middlesex
Dan Whiting looks at the stories behind some of the venues that Middlesex have used over the years Middlesex might be...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Ranking system is in need of change, or scrap it
To be the best has to incorporate a worthiness, which is why the International Cricket Council should resurrect plans for a...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Remember, fifth day gave us Botham’s ‘miracle’
England’s victory in the third Test at Edgbaston was a shot in the arm for five-day Test cricket, but it was...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Well, it’s cricket Jim, but not as we know it!
I have a question. Do people buy a ticket for a day at the Test match and then dress up as...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoOutgrounds – Leicestershire
When Gower rescued Taylor from a battering by snarling Sylvester Dan Whiting unearths some intriguing tales from Leicestershire’s forays into the...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Yorkshire – C&G Trophy winners 2002
By Neil Fissler Yorkshire had endured a long 14-year wait for trophies between winning the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1987...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Is the book set to close on Alex & England?
When it comes to what Alex Hales is thinking or feeling, mind-reading skills are seldom required. Three summers have passed since...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – There’s nowt like a Yorkie to get you chuckling
Last Monday – and this may come as news to many of you – was ‘Yorkshire Day’. How this anniversary is...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – I can feel for Ben, it’s not fun being injured
Ben Stokes will be cursing his luck having suffered another injury on his first Test back in the England team but...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Dazzling win can’t hide the England problems
Bearing in mind the scale and manner of England’s brilliant victory over Pakistan in the second Investec Test at Old Trafford...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Why Amir & Co must get into reverse gear again
Three lefties and a leggie sounds like a red barbershop quartet not the Test match bowling attack fielded by Pakistan. But...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Let’s admit it, we’ve never had a leggie to stand on!
It wasn’t a huge surprise when Moeen Ali came waltzing down the pitch in the second innings at Lord’s. After all,...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – End this intrusion into personal grief
Jonny Bairstow, face like Viking thunder, fixed his gaze on the camera in front of him and, just for a fraction...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – English game needs to give spin a chance
The recent heat wave should have had spinners all over England loosening their fingers. Even a few days of 90-degree weather...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Milton’s paradise not lost, thanks to snicko
The year is 2058 – the 50th anniversary of DRS in Test cricket – and the tannoy crackles into life at...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Cheating Amir will be judged in house of Lord’s
The people of Taunton have spoken. The people of Hove will get their chance in the coming days. But the first...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – No score too large for Gayle and Co to chase
I am currently in Guyana preparing for the top of the table clash in the Caribbean Premier League. My Jamaica Tallawahs...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Squabbles, insults, threats… Oh yes, it’s Pakistan!
England and Pakistan will not be playing for anything tangible this summer, like the Ashes, but given that their cricketing history...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Durham – Minor Counties champions 1976
By Neil Fissler Neil Riddell admits Durham weren’t unhappy that it was the rain which enabled them to claim their first...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – ‘It began so well, until my trip to the loo!’
England have confirmed they will travel to Bangladesh for two Tests and three one-day internationals in October. And the announcement of...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Misbah is a skipper who gels Pakistan together
In Urdu, Misbah means light or lamp, an apt personification for Pakistan’s Misbah-ul-Haq, who in his six years as the country’s...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – I’ll use my factor 60, so please don’t zap me, Bruce!
It’s easily done. You’re just settling down for a cosy afternoon in front of the cricket when you accidentally sit down...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – A day can be a long time in cricket, ask Sunil
I was reading the other day an article about the use of “guided missile microtechnology” to measure the effect of fast...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Give Hawk-Eye power to join out campaign
The eyes of the cricket world will be on Edinburgh next week, not something you write every day, but, in the...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – This was never about scoring points!
What a thriller that was on Tuesday, and one thing is for certain – nobody on the pitch was thinking that...
County Championships
County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
County Championships
Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
