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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 […]

Just me, my boy, and the Oval Invincibles

20 August 2023 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS A week or so ago I had the perfect view of Spencer Johnson’s 3-1 – that’s three wickets […]

That’s how the game should be

20 August 2023 0 comments

RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler We are told the future of cricket is city franchises. Like Brigadoon, the fabled Scottish […]

Penny for your thoughts, coach

13 August 2023 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS A few years ago, Paul Downton, Kent’s director of cricket, told me that my playing days were up […]

A method to Jack’s madness

13 August 2023 0 comments

RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler It is apt that, during a summer in which the bucket hat is once again […]

Domestic bliss

13 August 2023 0 comments

Too much cricket? English cricket fans should be grateful for the range and quality of games they have access to […]

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 […]

He was just a scrawny kid, but you knew he was something special

6 August 2023 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS It was always going to finish with Stuart Broad. Those cricketing gods… There I was thinking I’d had […]

Look how much it’s changed!

6 August 2023 0 comments

RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler Late in the evening on September 7, 1963, a musical variety show at the Victoria […]

It was the series that just had everything!

6 August 2023 0 comments

VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN Is anyone else suffering from post-Ashes blues? When we were immersed in […]

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 […]

Where stars are born (and swansongs sung!)

30 July 2023 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS The return of the One-Day Cup this week stirs some happy memories from last year. Having previously lost […]

Is there method to bananas madness?

30 July 2023 0 comments

RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler The Savannah Bananas are a baseball team like no other. Owner Jesse Cole has turned […]

Plotting a cricketing road far less travelled

30 July 2023 0 comments

VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN Few things excite me quite like travel. Which is pretty fortunate when […]

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 […]

Passing on the legacy of Beefy

23 July 2023 0 comments

RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler At the end of the first day at the Old Trafford Test, reserve umpire Martin […]

Have England closed the gap on Australia?

23 July 2023 0 comments

VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN “In terms of a gap it’s just that we’ve been really consistent.” […]

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 […]

From Hinckley home to Headingley haven

23 July 2023 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS What luck I’ve had to have played at so many different cricket grounds all over the UK and […]

The romance of an outground

16 July 2023 0 comments

RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler It has been suggested that outground cricket represents the county game on its holidays. When […]

A thrilling finale awaits

16 July 2023 0 comments

VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN What a time it’s been for England Ashes fightbacks. After the first […]

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 […]

Pick your best keeper – and that means Foakes

16 July 2023 0 comments

DARREN STEVENS Back when I was a teenager playing for Hinckley Town CC in the early 1990s, I had an […]

Play up, play up and play the game

9 July 2023 0 comments

RICHARD CLARKE ‘AKA The Grumbler’ About 20 years ago, I played in the Barnet Sunday League for a football team […]

Steve Smith –the master craftsman

9 July 2023 0 comments

VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN During the week, Cricket Australia released a video of a blindfolded Steve […]

Columnists

A fond farewell to the too-gentle giant

Just me, my boy, and the Oval Invincibles

That’s how the game should be

Penny for your thoughts, coach

A method to Jack’s madness

Domestic bliss

Overseas churn sees steep drop in quality

He was just a scrawny kid, but you knew he was something special

Look how much it’s changed!

It was the series that just had everything!

Destination India: Can Bazball do dustbowls?

Where stars are born (and swansongs sung!)

Is there method to bananas madness?

Plotting a cricketing road far less travelled

Cummins stands alone as the true titan of Summer

Passing on the legacy of Beefy

Have England closed the gap on Australia?

Zak channels spirit of Beefy and Gilbert

From Hinckley home to Headingley haven

The romance of an outground

A thrilling finale awaits

Is this better than 2005? Not just yet

Pick your best keeper – and that means Foakes

Play up, play up and play the game

Steve Smith –the master craftsman

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