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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Sixes are a bonus but Plunkett’s pace is the real plus
It is unlike me to become sentimental, but with England tying the one-day international at Trent Bridge the other night, I...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoICP Young Gun – Philip Salt
‘So in awe of Sobers, I took his takeaway’ Philip Salt can be forgiven a moment of embarrassment after realising he...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Lancashire – 2003 ECB National League Division Two champions
By Neil Fissler Kyle Hogg admits that West Indian star Carl Hooper was a major influence on Lancashire winning promotion into...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Try Yeovil as there’d never be a ‘murder’ at Lord’s!
Some cricket grounds have more of an aura about them than others, and when a friend phoned the other day to...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Malan’s earned call but why only one game?
England have announced their squads for the upcoming ODIs and single T20 against Sri Lanka, and it looks like a very...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoRoom 101 – John Blain
Odd socks I can’t stand it when people wear odd socks, it drives me mad. It’s an OCD thing of mine,...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – There is pace… And there is raw pace like Tymal Mills
There is pace that hurries batsmen and then there is real pace that threatens their well-being, and Tymal Mills possesses the...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoICP Young Gun – Kamau Leverock
‘My 20st uncle made a splash, now I want it to be my turn’ If you do not recognise Dwayne Leverock...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – All counties need equal TV exposure
With the One-Day Cup and T20 Blast now in full flow, there is plenty of county action on our TV screens...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Warwickshire – John Player Sunday League Champions 1980
By Neil Fissler Andy Lloyd remembers well Bob Willis’ first season in charge of Warwickshire as it brought about a change...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – There are some guys who just thrive off being bad
A nicer man than Vic Marks would be hard to find, and the dialogue as he walked out to bat for...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoRoom 101 – Calum MacLeod
Traffic jams I hate anything which delays me getting somewhere but, more specifically, 50 mph speed restrictions bother me. Going up...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDream Team – Gary Pratt
The former Durham batsman picks the best XI he has played with and against… Jimmy Maher – retired Jimmy came over...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – I’d have hated to umpire if Dev was bowling
Of all the performances to come out of the recent second Test in Durham, from Moeen Ali’s attacking century to Jimmy...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Leicestershire – 2001 runners up Sunday League and C&G Trophy
By Neil Fissler Neil Burns admits that Leicestershire were disappointed not to have ended the 2001 season with at least one...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – There’d be no fun if Geoffrey’s mum was at No.11
There are one or two instances in which Wisden’s claim to be cricket’s unimpeachable bible fails to stand up to serious...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – Why the ICC masterplan should not spare Ashes
A cautious welcome to the ICC’s proposal to offer those nations currently excluded from the closed shop of Test cricket a...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – Finn must eye up the prey and hit the deck hard
There is another game Steven Finn appears to be playing alongside cricket at the moment – Snakes and Ladders. Finn, a...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Batters beware: A team can fold any time
It’s been nice to see wickets falling in the County Championship now after batsmen dominated the opening few weeks, but there...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Glamorgan – National League winners 2002 & 2004
By Neil Fissler Mike Powell believes that the key strength of Glamorgan at the turn of the millennium was that the...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – It’s poor timing again for Graves & T20 Blast
On the face of it, the eve of the start of this season’s NatWest Blast should have been the ideal time...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – ‘Sorry, you will have to write it in office. I can’t cope’
It’s not difficult to conjure up the scene in the Sri Lankan dressing room just before the start of the Headingley...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Thank God… it’s not like Nineties anymore
It wasn’t just in the international set-up that there were ups and downs in the 1990s. The Nineties era was almost...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – Cozier: A radio star and a top party host to boot
Cricket down here is the poorer for his passing, but for listeners to the celestial version of Test Match Special –...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – North v South… It’s not so cut and dry for me
It is difficult to know whether the North v South one-day series stated for next March is an innovation, a throwback,...
County Championships
County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
County Championships
Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
