Ben Gardner
Ben 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 a Test classic for the...
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Ben Gardner
/ 3 weeks 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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Ben Gardner
/ 1 month 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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Ben Gardner
/ 2 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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Ben Gardner
/ 2 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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Ben Gardner
/ 3 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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Ben Gardner
/ 10 months 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
/ 11 months 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
/ 12 months 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
/ 12 months 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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 News/The Hundred
Vitality Blast: Tom Kohler-Cadmore smashes 90 as Somerset thrash Essex
County News/The Hundred
Hundred 2025: David Willey and Ash Gardner named Trent Rockets captains
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County Championship 2025: Somerset Season Preview
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