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Mel Farrell
/ 3 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'
/ 3 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
/ 3 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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Derek Pringle
/ 3 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
/ 3 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'
/ 3 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
/ 3 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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Mel Farrell
/ 3 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'
/ 3 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
/ 3 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
/ 3 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
/ 3 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'
/ 3 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
/ 3 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
/ 3 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
/ 3 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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Mel Farrell
/ 3 years agoLyon’s cruel luck set to end historic streak
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN Cricket can be cruel at times, with no regard for milestones, records or...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 3 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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Darren Stevens
/ 3 years agoWhat is going on at Leicestershire?
DARREN STEVENS I’m a Leicester lover, it’s my home town and the place where I played for the first eight years...
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Derek Pringle
/ 3 years agoMacho England hooked on self-destruction
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle From Playground to the Test Arena’ was a slogan, now defunct, that the ECB once used to promote...
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Darren Stevens
/ 3 years agoBob helped set me free, now he’s on the Bazball trail
DARREN STEVENS My first thought when I heard that Rob Key had been appointed managing director of the England men’s cricket...
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Derek Pringle
/ 3 years agoNo turning back
DEREK PRINGLE Ozball 1, Bazball 0. Tortoise 1, Hare 0. Traditionalists 1, Disruptors 0….. just some of the headlines aired in...
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Mel Farrell
/ 3 years agoA decade on and it’s all change
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN Ten years ago I covered my first Test match as a reporter. It...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 3 years agoIf the Sugababes could see us now
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler Perhaps it is the pace of the game, the financial incentives or just the inevitable evolution...
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Darren Stevens
/ 3 years agoNo disrespect to Kookaburra, but I’m a dukes man!
DARREN STEVENS While our very own Dukes cricket ball takes centre stage in the Ashes over the next few weeks, English...
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