Annie Chave
Annie Chave: Cold weather, warm embrace! County cricket returns
It’s safe to say that it was a decidedly uncomfortable lead-in to the much-anticipated County Championship this season.
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Columnists
/ 4 days agoLauren Winfield-Hill: Home is where the heart lies
It’s been a long winter, but after six months in Australia and a brief trip to South Africa for pre-season, it...
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Columnists
/ 4 days agoKatya Witney: A testing summer ahead for women’s domestic cricket
This time last year, counties were navigating their new homes alongside men’s sides at the same grounds, looking apprehensively at schedules...
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Columnists
/ 2 weeks agoRichard Clarke: The start of summer! Get ready for a spectacular season of county red-ball cricket
The start of every county season is a process of reacquaintance. There are familiar friends and foes, customs and traditions, sights...
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Adam Collins
/ 5 months agoAdam Collins: Why do Aussies hate Bazball?
A confession: I am an Australian who doesn’t have a pathological hatred of the current England team. I’m not exactly enthralled...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoMark Butcher: Jacob Bethell in pole position following Ollie Pope’s demotion
We’re in the commentary box for the One-Day Cup final, it’s raining outside, and Nick Knight pipes up: “Who bats three?...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoDarren Stevens: The season’s over but the show must go on
The lot of a professional domestic cricketer is crazy: he plays way too much cricket between April and September, then far...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoKatya Witney: Emerging batters make it a season to remember
Lancashire’s One-Day Cup win last weekend book-ended their season with silverware. Without wanting to downplay their T20 County Cup win back...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoRichard Clarke: It’s The Grumbler’s 2025 County Awards!
Well, ladies and gentlemen, here we are again. While self-praise is no praise, we like to think the Grumbler’s End of...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoLauren Winfield-Hill: Kate Cross faces uncertain future as Lancashire rise but England career fades
Kate Cross gave a pretty frank account of losing her central contract this week, and I can attest from personal experience...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoDerek Pringle: Phil Salt’s spectacular striking forces the world to sit up
We all know Phil Salt excels in top gear like few others, his pristine ball striking and unerring shot selection clinching...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoMark Butcher: Phil Salt and Jos Buttler go stratospheric
England’s batting performance in the T20 against South Africa at Old Trafford was simply extraordinary.
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Annie Chave
/ 7 months agoAnnie Chave: Fighting for relevance as the new era dawns
The final week of the English domestic cricket season looms against a backdrop of arguments over player fatigue, a seemingly endless...
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Ben Gardner
/ 7 months agoBen Gardner: Nottinghamshire step up as Peter Moores eyes history
It will take a miracle now, or a catastrophe, depending on your point of view.
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoLauren Winfield-Hill: Common sense triumphs as Yorkshire & England plan ahead
Getting a trophy in the cabinet in the Tier Two One Day cup final last weekend was the perfect sign off...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoMark Butcher: Proteas ODI defeat showed best and worst of Harry Brook’s England
England’s rollercoaster ODI series against South Africa summed up where they currently are as a side.
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoDarren Stevens: The One-Day Cup – Frankenstein come good
Finals are coming thick and fast. The T20 Blast yesterday, Surrey v Notts starting tomorrow (unofficially a Championship final), the men’s...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoKatya Witney: Fond farewells as World Cup will be legends’ last hurrah
The pinnacle of the men’s game differs from player to player. Ask an England or Australia Test player, and they’ll tell...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoLauren Winfield-Hill: No point looking beyond the Aussies for Word Cup glory
As the World Cup comes ever closer, it’s almost time to start making predictions for which team is going to come...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoRichard Clarke: The one where we don’t know who wins
Famously, episodes of Friends were always named the same way. The convention began with “The One”. For example, ‘The One with...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoMark Butcher: Name changes risk undermining the Hundred’s good work
After the most successful edition of The Hundred yet, in terms of both the quality of cricket and audience engagement, there...
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Ben Gardner
/ 7 months agoBen Gardner: Adam Zampa’s flight turns a spotlight on cricket’s eco-unfriendliness
The very best spinners won’t just test you off the pitch, they’ll beat you in the flight, and when it comes...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoLauren Winfield-Hill: Davina Perrin’s peak as Northern Superchargers show their sheer class
Davina Perrin’s Hundred in the Eliminator at The Oval was the kind of innings that will change her life.
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoMark Butcher: Can a revamp reignite the T20 Blast?
As The Hundred draws to a close, attention returns to the Men’s T20 Blast next week, with the first of the...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoDerek Pringle: Sonny Baker and Saqib Mahmood to bring reverse swing back into play
The forthcoming 50-over series between England and South Africa should generate more interest than usual for a bilateral series tacked on...
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