Derek Pringle

Tradition runs deep amid power disparity

1 October 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Surrey’s second County Championship in as many years has meant the last seven seasons have been much […]

Tim can look back on a spell-binding career

24 September 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle All eras end eventually and so it is with the Age of Tim Murtagh at Middlesex, after […]

All bases covered for Indian mission

17 September 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Cricket is not just a game where 11 players pit their skills and wits against 11 others, […]

Like dad, Josh shows value of versatility

10 September 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Just like the A-level student who has to settle for their second or third choices of university, […]

Brook omission shows Jos is playing it

3 September 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle For a captain forever championing the aggressive option, Jos Buttler has played it pretty safe with the […]

A fond farewell to the too-gentle giant

20 August 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Steven Finn never had the slick, repeatable action to be England’s Curtly Ambrose but he should have […]

Overseas churn sees steep drop in quality

13 August 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Allan Border was an uncompromising cricketer but even he took that to extremes in 1986 at Ilford’s […]

Destination India: Can Bazball do dustbowls?

6 August 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Not content with Bazball wowing us last summer, the sceptics immediately wondered how it would go in […]

Cummins stands alone as the true titan of Summer

30 July 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle If Australia had been able to catch during England’s first innings at The Oval then Pat Cummins […]

Zak channels spirit of Beefy and Gilbert

23 July 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle There have been many great Ashes innings over the decades but for sheer bravura and lack of […]

Is this better than 2005? Not just yet

16 July 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle England’s current Test cricketers enjoy a round of golf (well, maybe not Jonny Bairstow), but so too […]

Nasty, Brutish, Short: Facing up to real pace

9 July 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle If the boos resounding around Headingley for Pat Cummins were meant to embarrass Australia’s captain on the […]

Anderson’s Ashes hanging by a thread

2 July 2023 0 comments

About five years ago I was interviewed for the job of England selector and was asked by the interview panel […]

Macho England hooked on self-destruction

2 July 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle From Playground to the Test Arena’ was a slogan, now defunct, that the ECB once used to […]

No turning back

25 June 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE Ozball 1, Bazball 0. Tortoise 1, Hare 0. Traditionalists 1, Disruptors 0….. just some of the headlines aired […]

Bewildering, but brilliant Bazball

18 June 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE This Ashes is Bazball’s big trial in the court of cricketing opinion though finding hard evidence of it […]

The Moeen Mystery

12 June 2023 0 comments

I’m a bit confused. England’s go-to spinner Jack Leach suffers a stress fracture and pulls out of the Ashes and […]

Farewell to a true master of his craft

11 June 2023 0 comments

David Emery 1946-2023 Derek Pringle looks back at the career of The Cricket Paper supremo who sadly died last week […]

Head cleared, Travis poses a new threat

11 June 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE If imitation is the greatest form of flattery then Travis Head should have the gratitude of the country […]

Broad is kept so young by fine art

4 June 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle If James Anderson is the perfectionist, Stuart Broad is the pragmatist – a bowler who finds what […]

Josh has really set Tongues wagging

4 June 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE Tall, quick and accurate, there is much to admire about Josh Tongue, the strapping Worcestershire fast bowler who […]

Ashes quality is in danger due to lack of preparation

28 May 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE | @derekpringle Australians used to be the only ones who disagreed with Stuart Broad’s pronouncements on cricket. Yet, […]

Jofra’s now got a tough decision to make

21 May 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle England have played exactly 48 Tests since Jofra Archer made his debut in 2019, but due to […]

County batters heeding McCullum’s clarion call

14 May 2023 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE County cricketers have always been particular about their batting gloves but the gauntlet thrown down by Brendon McCullum, […]

COUNTY SEASON LEFT TO SUFFER

26 September 2021 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringleAs harbingers of things to come the recent move by Ross Whiteley from Worcestershire to Hampshire would not […]