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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Westley has look of future England Test star
Tom Westley has not been selected in England’s squad for the first Test against Sri Lanka, but if he carries on...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – There’s plenty of spice in this fiery contest
Stand by for the resumption of the second-longest running feud in world cricket. When England take on Sri Lanka in the...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – Cricket! A game for men in white coats…
It’s not long now until the first Test between England and Sri Lanka gets under way at Headingley, and let’s hope...
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/ 10 years agoAssociates column – Cricket can enjoy its own Leicester City moment…
By Tim Wigmore From 5,000-1 outsiders to title winners. No wonder the tale of Leicester City has resonated far beyond football....
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/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Quality bowlers rising to top during run fests
All the early season talk has been of how the batsmen are scoring mountains of runs, resulting in most games being...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMy Life in Cricket – Chris Tremlett
At school I was more of a batting all-rounder, I’d bat at three and bowl a bit of medium pace. But...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – England must be bold and have a go with spin
It might be as well to preface the following remarks with an admission that I fear what I am about to...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – It’s time to make it harder to win the run chase
They always say the chase is the best bit to life but that has been taken to extremes in this year’s...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Buckinghamshire – Minor Counties champions 1969
By Neil Fissler Tom Hickling admits that Buckinghamshire winning a record eighth Minor Counties Championship was the highlight of his cricket...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – Robo-ump will need his smart phone and new app!
Assuming the reports in The Times weren’t part of a late April fool’s gag, if the inventor of Hawk-Eye technology has...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – 1,000 runs in May? No just 1,000 Goose pimples!
This has not been the most convenient time for the junior doctors to be kicking up a fuss, just when the...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Middlesex – 2002 County Championship Division Two runners up
By Neil Fissler Paul Weekes has good cause to remember Middlesex winning promotion for the first time because it was his...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – Beefy and his Brexit call can change cricket
The uncertainty over Brexit is not limited to big business and little Englanders. Much of the country’s sport could be radically...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWisden… The game’s voice keeps ticking along
Alex Narey speaks to Wisden editor Lawrence Booth about the history of the Almanack, and what makes it the most famous...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – Keep your lid on and always wear the armour…
England’s travelling support may be a tad thinner than usual this winter, largely thanks to the main course – India –...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – Viv would have been on Cook’s side over helmets
To see or not to see, that appears to be the question Alastair Cook has been given no choice to decide...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMy Life in Cricket – Alan Wells
I can still vividly remember Curtly Ambrose running in at me on my Test debut – and I distinctly remember thinking...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – Cricket must fight this threat to its future…
It was at boarding school in Essex that I first discovered the glory of cricket on a perfect English summer’s day....
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Hampshire – Second Division runners up 2001
By Neil Fissler Adi Aymes remembers with some fondness Hampshire’s first season at the Rose Bowl following their move from Northlands...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDevils or angels, these men made a huge impact on world cricket
Derek Pringle looks at the effects Packer, Stamford and Modi have had on the way our sport is played and broadcast...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Sad times but Titch & Deano are just top lads
The sudden and heart-breaking retirement of James Taylor has been the big talking point of the week. It would be too...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – Taylor’s grit will help him in these dark days
I was on my way to Trent Bridge following up the promise of an interview when I heard the news about...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoHow the English team managed to bloom in the past year thanks to Strauss’ wisdom
Peter Hayter notes how the Wisden launch last year became a watershed moment for England’s international cricketing fortunes The annual dinner...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – Wisden so right on Ben, but where are bowlers?
With only one half of Ben Stokes’ all-round mastery representing them, bowlers were absent from Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year,...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoBravo Tango, you’ve earned this accolade from the MCC
Dan Whiting looks behind the headlines at the new MCC head coach Steve Kirby and reveals a different side to a...
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