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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoDomestic bliss
Too much cricket? English cricket fans should be grateful for the range and quality of games they have access to VIEW...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoA method to Jack’s madness
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler It is apt that, during a summer in which the bucket hat is once again English...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoPenny for your thoughts, coach
DARREN STEVENS A few years ago, Paul Downton, Kent’s director of cricket, told me that my playing days were up and...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoDestination India: Can Bazball do dustbowls?
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Not content with Bazball wowing us last summer, the sceptics immediately wondered how it would go in the...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoIt was the series that just had everything!
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN Is anyone else suffering from post-Ashes blues? When we were immersed in the...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoLook how much it’s changed!
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler Late in the evening on September 7, 1963, a musical variety show at the Victoria Palace...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoHe was just a scrawny kid, but you knew he was something special
DARREN STEVENS It was always going to finish with Stuart Broad. Those cricketing gods… There I was thinking I’d had a...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoCummins stands alone as the true titan of Summer
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle If Australia had been able to catch during England’s first innings at The Oval then Pat Cummins would...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoPlotting a cricketing road far less travelled
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN Few things excite me quite like travel. Which is pretty fortunate when you’re...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoIs there method to bananas madness?
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler The Savannah Bananas are a baseball team like no other. Owner Jesse Cole has turned around...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoWhere stars are born (and swansongs sung!)
DARREN STEVENS The return of the One-Day Cup this week stirs some happy memories from last year. Having previously lost three...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoHave England closed the gap on Australia?
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN "In terms of a gap it’s just that we’ve been really consistent.” “I...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoPassing on the legacy of Beefy
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler At the end of the first day at the Old Trafford Test, reserve umpire Martin Saggers...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoFrom Hinckley home to Headingley haven
DARREN STEVENS What luck I’ve had to have played at so many different cricket grounds all over the UK and across...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoZak channels spirit of Beefy and Gilbert
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle There have been many great Ashes innings over the decades but for sheer bravura and lack of inhibition...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoA thrilling finale awaits
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN What a time it’s been for England Ashes fightbacks. After the first two...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoThe romance of an outground
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler It has been suggested that outground cricket represents the county game on its holidays. When you...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoPick your best keeper – and that means Foakes
DARREN STEVENS Back when I was a teenager playing for Hinckley Town CC in the early 1990s, I had an experimental...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoIs this better than 2005? Not just yet
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle England’s current Test cricketers enjoy a round of golf (well, maybe not Jonny Bairstow), but so too do...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoSteve Smith –the master craftsman
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN During the week, Cricket Australia released a video of a blindfolded Steve Smith,...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoPlay up, play up and play the game
RICHARD CLARKE 'AKA The Grumbler' About 20 years ago, I played in the Barnet Sunday League for a football team called,...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoFor a county cricketer, nothing beats Finals Day
DARREN STEVENS When I played for Leicestershire in the first-ever T20 Finals Day in 2003, few of us knew what to...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoNasty, Brutish, Short: Facing up to real pace
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle If the boos resounding around Headingley for Pat Cummins were meant to embarrass Australia’s captain on the opening...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoAnderson’s Ashes hanging by a thread
About five years ago I was interviewed for the job of England selector and was asked by the interview panel how...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoWill anything really change?
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler The day after the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) released its report, they assembled...
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County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
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Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
