Paul Nixon column – I can feel for Ben, it’s not fun being injured 2 August 2016 0 comments Ben Stokes will be cursing his luck having suffered another injury on his first Test back in the England team […]
Peter Hayter column – Dazzling win can’t hide the England problems 2 August 2016 0 comments Bearing in mind the scale and manner of England’s brilliant victory over Pakistan in the second Investec Test at Old […]
Derek Pringle column – Why Amir & Co must get into reverse gear again 2 August 2016 0 comments Three lefties and a leggie sounds like a red barbershop quartet not the Test match bowling attack fielded by Pakistan. […]
Martin Johnson column – Let’s admit it, we’ve never had a leggie to stand on! 26 July 2016 0 comments It wasn’t a huge surprise when Moeen Ali came waltzing down the pitch in the second innings at Lord’s. After […]
Peter Hayter column – End this intrusion into personal grief 26 July 2016 0 comments Jonny Bairstow, face like Viking thunder, fixed his gaze on the camera in front of him and, just for a […]
Derek Pringle column – English game needs to give spin a chance 26 July 2016 0 comments The recent heat wave should have had spinners all over England loosening their fingers. Even a few days of 90-degree […]
Martin Johnson column – Milton’s paradise not lost, thanks to snicko 19 July 2016 0 comments The year is 2058 – the 50th anniversary of DRS in Test cricket – and the tannoy crackles into life […]
Peter Hayter column – Cheating Amir will be judged in house of Lord’s 12 July 2016 0 comments The people of Taunton have spoken. The people of Hove will get their chance in the coming days. But the […]
Paul Nixon column – No score too large for Gayle and Co to chase 12 July 2016 0 comments I am currently in Guyana preparing for the top of the table clash in the Caribbean Premier League. My Jamaica […]
Martin Johnson column – Squabbles, insults, threats… Oh yes, it’s Pakistan! 11 July 2016 0 comments England and Pakistan will not be playing for anything tangible this summer, like the Ashes, but given that their cricketing […]
Where are they now? Durham – Minor Counties champions 1976 5 July 2016 0 comments By Neil Fissler Neil Riddell admits Durham weren’t unhappy that it was the rain which enabled them to claim their […]
Peter Hayter column – ‘It began so well, until my trip to the loo!’ 5 July 2016 0 comments England have confirmed they will travel to Bangladesh for two Tests and three one-day internationals in October. And the announcement […]
Derek Pringle column – Misbah is a skipper who gels Pakistan together 5 July 2016 0 comments In Urdu, Misbah means light or lamp, an apt personification for Pakistan’s Misbah-ul-Haq, who in his six years as the […]
Martin Johnson column – I’ll use my factor 60, so please don’t zap me, Bruce! 4 July 2016 0 comments It’s easily done. You’re just settling down for a cosy afternoon in front of the cricket when you accidentally sit […]
Martin Johnson column – A day can be a long time in cricket, ask Sunil 28 June 2016 0 comments I was reading the other day an article about the use of “guided missile microtechnology” to measure the effect of […]
Peter Hayter column – Give Hawk-Eye power to join out campaign 27 June 2016 0 comments The eyes of the cricket world will be on Edinburgh next week, not something you write every day, but, in […]
Paul Nixon column – This was never about scoring points! 27 June 2016 0 comments What a thriller that was on Tuesday, and one thing is for certain – nobody on the pitch was thinking […]
Derek Pringle column – Sixes are a bonus but Plunkett’s pace is the real plus 27 June 2016 0 comments It is unlike me to become sentimental, but with England tying the one-day international at Trent Bridge the other night, […]
ICP Young Gun – Philip Salt 21 June 2016 0 comments ‘So in awe of Sobers, I took his takeaway’ Philip Salt can be forgiven a moment of embarrassment after realising […]
Where are they now? Lancashire – 2003 ECB National League Division Two champions 21 June 2016 0 comments By Neil Fissler Kyle Hogg admits that West Indian star Carl Hooper was a major influence on Lancashire winning promotion […]
Martin Johnson column – Try Yeovil as there’d never be a ‘murder’ at Lord’s! 20 June 2016 0 comments Some cricket grounds have more of an aura about them than others, and when a friend phoned the other day […]
Paul Nixon column – Malan’s earned call but why only one game? 20 June 2016 0 comments England have announced their squads for the upcoming ODIs and single T20 against Sri Lanka, and it looks like a […]
Room 101 – John Blain 20 June 2016 0 comments Odd socks I can’t stand it when people wear odd socks, it drives me mad. It’s an OCD thing of […]
Derek Pringle column – There is pace… And there is raw pace like Tymal Mills 20 June 2016 0 comments There is pace that hurries batsmen and then there is real pace that threatens their well-being, and Tymal Mills possesses […]
ICP Young Gun – Kamau Leverock 14 June 2016 0 comments ‘My 20st uncle made a splash, now I want it to be my turn’ If you do not recognise Dwayne […]