Ben Gardner
Ben 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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Ben Gardner
/ 3 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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Ben Gardner
/ 3 months agoBen Gardner: The IPL is the IPL, everything else is everything else
"The IPL of the northern hemisphere.” That was ECB chair Richard Thomspon’s stated ambition for The Hundred, revealed while speaking to...
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Ben Gardner
/ 4 months agoBen Gardner: Let them Kook – There’s room for the Aussie ball in England
Ben Gardner thinks there’s a place for the Kookaburra ball in the county game Before this season, your position on the...
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Ben Gardner
/ 4 months agoBen Gardner: Less is more? Counties have their say on 2026 schedule
The battle lines are being drawn, the media releases readied, the statements disseminated. County cricket’s civil war is here and it’s…...
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Ben Gardner
/ 5 months agoBen Gardner: Wiaan Mulder can’t do right for doing wrong
Ben Gardner salutes South Africa’s stand-in captain for his grand gesture Wiaan Mulder had just had one of the best days...
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/ 5 months agoBen Gardner: India’s County Championship love-in a bonus for everyone
Ben Gardner on how Indians players are flocking to club and county Headingley may have witnessed England and India play out...
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/ 6 months agoBen Gardner: Half full or half empty for the Vitality Blast?
Ben Gardner on why less could be more for Blast The contrast was depressing and impossible to ignore, and quickly pointed...
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/ 6 months agoBen Gardner: Surrey struggles lead to intriguing County Championship title race
Ben Gardner on how a relatively quiet start for the champions is good news for the resurgent competition It’s a marker...
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/ 7 months agoBen Gardner: Winless Lancashire hit rock-bottom
Ben Gardner on the Red Rose’s recent red-ball struggles How did it come to this? Two seasons ago, Lancashire were comfortably...
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/ 7 months agoBen Gardner: A tale of two Ahmed’s
Ben Gardner sees the County Championship through two brothers There’s similarity in the approaches. Both Rehan and Farhan Ahmed hold the...
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/ 8 months agoBen Gardner: ICC letting down Women’s Cricket
Ben Gardner says the best cricket currently being played is being badly served by the sports’ governing body West Indies and...
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/ 1 year agoBen Gardner: Sussex’s solid season points to a bright future
For Sussex, at the start of this year, simply not ending the season in crisis would have marked a form of...
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Ben Gardner
/ 1 year agoHundred shows the way for England undercard
Ben Gardner You’ve got one of the best players to have ever played the game, and you’ve had him on toast...
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Ben Gardner
/ 1 year agoThe Hundred’s for sale but will the buyers come?
As the 2024 edition of the Hundred gets underway, the battle in the boardroom will be fought as keenly as the...
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Ben Gardner
/ 1 year agoBracey’s best shows recovery is possible
BEN GARDNER The Gloucestershire keeper has put his unfortunate England experience behind him at last Any one of the following –...
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Ben Gardner
/ 1 year agoLOUIS KIMBER AND THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE
BEN GARDNER HOW MOMENTS LIKE THESE KEEP US COMING BACK FOR MORE If you’re not actually at a ground, then there...
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Ben Gardner
/ 1 year agoJoin the Club: Sangakkara’s village outing
BEN GARDNERR The appearance of Kumar Sangakkara for a lowly club side got Ben Gardner thinking Looking back, of that generation...
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Ben Gardner
/ 2 years agoGet excited, get very excited
BEN GARDNER It rarely takes the very best long to resume normal service after some time out. Think Steve Smith scoring...
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Ben Gardner
/ 2 years agoLancs losses in sharp relief against Surrey’s success
BEN GARDNER "We need two extra points.” Head coach Gareth Batty, speaking at the end of Surrey’s latest dismantling of a...
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Ben Gardner
/ 2 years agoBacking the bat in the balancing act of T20
BEN GARDNER A major fascination of international T20 cricket is its necessary get-what-you’re-given nature. While franchise teams don’t all follow the...
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Ben Gardner
/ 2 years agoWhen points and pointlessness combine
BEN GARDNERR NEW COLUMNIST! So was that basically all meaningless then? A fortnight that may as well not have happened? We’ve...
County Championships
County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
County Championships
Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
