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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 3 years agoPulling power
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler Jimi Hendrix always used a Fender Stratocaster, Bruce Springsteen is never seen on stage without his...
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Darren Stevens
/ 3 years agoCould there be a twist in the tale?
DARREN STEVENS After a rush of white-ball cricket over the last month, the domestic schedule now makes space for September’s intriguing...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 3 years agoThat’s how the game should be
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler We are told the future of cricket is city franchises. Like Brigadoon, the fabled Scottish village...
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Darren Stevens
/ 3 years agoJust me, my boy, and the Oval Invincibles
DARREN STEVENS A week or so ago I had the perfect view of Spencer Johnson’s 3-1 – that’s three wickets for...
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Derek Pringle
/ 3 years agoA fond farewell to the too-gentle giant
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Steven Finn never had the slick, repeatable action to be England’s Curtly Ambrose but he should have been...
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Darren Stevens
/ 3 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
/ 3 years agoOverseas churn sees steep drop in quality
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Allan Border was an uncompromising cricketer but even he took that to extremes in 1986 at Ilford’s Valentines...
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Mel Farrell
/ 3 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'
/ 3 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
/ 3 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
/ 3 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
/ 3 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'
/ 3 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
/ 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 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
/ 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 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
/ 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 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 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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