Columnists
Darren 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 too little in the other...
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Columnists
/ 3 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
/ 3 months agoDarren Stevens: Reset to Blast – T20 quarters loom at last
Last spotted in mid-July, the T20 Blast returns next week with four quarter-finals between Wednesday and Saturday. I’m happy to say...
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Columnists
/ 4 months agoDarren Stevens: Get your foot to the ball? Just a myth
I can’t claim to have walked out to bat with one arm in a sling like Chris Woakes at The Oval....
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Columnists
/ 4 months agoDarren Stevens: Get up, get down: The search for a dippy spinner
The latest rounds of Championship cricket brought a lot of success for English spinners. Rehan Ahmed and Tom Hartley both took...
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/ 5 months agoDarren Stevens: Umpires must crack the whip – but we love a bit of needle
Just before tea on that extraordinary final day at Lord’s, in the midst of an astonishing rearguard innings that nearly pulled...
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/ 5 months agoDarren Stevens: Time to give the County Championship a showcase final
A little less than three weeks ago, South Africa were crowned Test champions after defying the odds to beat Australian in...
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Columnists
/ 6 months agoDarren Stevens: Chris Gayle’s 151* and all that, ten years on
The photo was taken almost exactly 10 years ago after one of the most extraordinary games of T20 cricket ever seen...
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/ 6 months agoDarren Stevens: Ian Holland heroics lead Leicester revival as half-time approaches
At the start of the season I picked out one team from each division who I thought would stand out this...
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/ 7 months agoDarren Stevens: Essex banking on youth and grace in new era for Women’s cricket
We’re nearly a month into a new era of women’s domestic cricket, which has seen a new tiered county system replacing...
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/ 8 months agoDarren Stevens: Invincibles at The Oval… or are they?
Ahead of the first game of the season at Northampton, Adam Hollioake, Kent’s new head coach, called a team meeting.
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Club Cricket
/ 1 year agoDarren Stevens: Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy ends regional era
It was a funny old way to bring down the curtain on women’s regional cricket on Saturday at Grace Road in...
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Club Cricket
/ 1 year agoDarren Stevens: Gloucestershire deserving T20 Blast champions
After Gloucestershire’s heroics a week ago, I can’t hide my pleasure at seeing a smaller county triumph on domestic cricket’s biggest...
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Darren Stevens
/ 1 year agoNothing as graceful as a Moeen Ali drive, except for the man himself…
By Darren Stevens After Moeen Ali announced his international retirement last week, I looked up how many times I came up...
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Darren Stevens
/ 1 year agoBlink before you miss it: Finals Day looms for lucky eight
There aren’t many bigger days in the county calendar than the T20 quarter-finals, which take place later this week. I say...
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Darren Stevens
/ 1 year agoRubbing shoulders with Sri Lankan greats
Darren Stevens This Sri Lanka side must be given a chance before they are written off, but it’s fair to say...
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Darren Stevens
/ 1 year agoMy mission statement: Turn England into World Cup winners
It’s two years since Kent released me but the fire still burns and I’m certainly not hanging up my boots just...
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Darren Stevens
/ 1 year agoWhat makes a good captain?
Darren Stevens discusses the role of a captain - and feels Harry Brook has what it takes, but says England need...
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Darren Stevens
/ 1 year agoCARIBBEAN ADVENTURES ACROSS THE SHIRES
DARREN STEVENS I was sorry to see the West Indies succumb so feebly in the first Test, but their arrival on...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 1 year agoGLOVES PASS TO SMITH – BUT ENGLAND ARE SPOILT FOR CHOICE
DARREN STEVENS The last week or so has been quite a time for wicketkeepers. We have to start with that extraordinary...
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Darren Stevens
/ 1 year agoSTARS IN MY EYES
DARREN STEVENS By the time you’re reading this we’ll either be floating on cloud nine or else drowning our sorrows. I’m...
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Darren Stevens
/ 1 year agoBatters: Do your homework then trust your instincts
DARREN STEVENS Last week we spoke about the expanding variety of slower balls employed by fast bowlers in T20 cricket and...
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Darren Stevens
/ 1 year agoThe evolution of the slower ball: A white-knuckle ride
DARREN STEVENS I coach a number of 12-14-year old seamers, and as you might expect the first thing we nail down...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoAll eyes on the World Cup – But Blast still packs a punch
DARREN STEVENS If Twenty20 is your thing then you’ve got it made over the next few weeks. Between now and the...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoSlaughtered seamers need not despair
DARREN STEVENS The T20 World Cup begins next Saturday hard on the heels of the Indian Premier League in which arguably...

