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Columnists
/ 8 months agoLauren Winfield-Hill: Davina Perrin’s peak as Northern Superchargers show their sheer class
Davina Perrin’s Hundred in the Eliminator at The Oval was the kind of innings that will change her life.
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoMark Butcher: Can a revamp reignite the T20 Blast?
As The Hundred draws to a close, attention returns to the Men’s T20 Blast next week, with the first of the...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoDerek Pringle: Sonny Baker and Saqib Mahmood to bring reverse swing back into play
The forthcoming 50-over series between England and South Africa should generate more interest than usual for a bilateral series tacked on...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoDarren Stevens: Reset to Blast – T20 quarters loom at last
Last spotted in mid-July, the T20 Blast returns next week with four quarter-finals between Wednesday and Saturday. I’m happy to say...
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Featured
/ 8 months agoTHE CURIOUS CASE OF DANÉ VAN NIEKERK
KATYA WITNEY South Africa’s Women’s World Cup squad has not yet been announced, but – as of Friday morning – one...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoMark Butcher: Jacob Bethell is being asked to run before he can walk
Jacob Bethell’s selection as England captain for next month’s T20I series in Ireland is remarkable in a lot of ways. Not...
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Annie Chave
/ 8 months agoAnnie Chave – Outgrounds are in as Hundred takes its toll
Walking from the train station for Somerset’s Metro Bank One Day Cup game against Durham, I joined a trail of people...
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Ben Gardner
/ 8 months agoBen Gardner: The IPL is the IPL, everything else is everything else
"The IPL of the northern hemisphere.” That was ECB chair Richard Thomspon’s stated ambition for The Hundred, revealed while speaking to...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoMark Butcher: The Hundred in holding pattern as identity questions loom
The fifth edition of The Hundred is underway and this feels very much like a holding year. Several of the new...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoDarren Stevens: Get your foot to the ball? Just a myth
I can’t claim to have walked out to bat with one arm in a sling like Chris Woakes at The Oval....
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoRichard Clarke: Evolution not revolution – What cricket can learn from baseball
For a sport that cherishes its history with such devotion, it seems surprising that there is no official commemoration on the...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoKatya Witney: One-woman shows and what they mean
Muneeba Ali hit a sensational hundred in the final T20I between Ireland and Pakistan in Dublin earlier this week, in a...
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoDerek Pringle: England’s lack of ruthlessness is still their undoing
It is a chicken-and-egg dilemma. Is England’s primary role under Ben Stokes to champion Test cricket or to win glory...
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoMark Butcher: The last quick standing – All hail Mohammad Siraj’s Summer
The unforgettable final scenes at The Oval gave us more drama than we knew what to do with. And at the...
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoMark Butcher: Cricket is not about ‘fairness’ and nor should it be
There’s been some talk this summer about Test cricket introducing substitutes for injured players, in light of Chris Woakes’ shoulder injury...
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoLauren Winfield-Hill: Perfect pitches makes for happier Hundred
All the signs are that this year will be the toughest, tightest edition of The Hundred yet. The availability of frontline...
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Ben Gardner
/ 9 months agoBen Gardner: Let them Kook – There’s room for the Aussie ball in England
Ben Gardner thinks there’s a place for the Kookaburra ball in the county game Before this season, your position on the...
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Annie Chave
/ 9 months agoAnnie Chave: A Tour de Force
Annie Chave on the life-chain nature of friendly cricket tours My ‘good old days’ belong to the innocence and freedom of...
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoDerek Pringle: Spraying Josh Tongue offers chaos and threat
The first pitch of the series with some green grass on it threw up some extraordinary cricket across the first two...
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoMark Butcher: Where are the rock-star spinners?
It’s been a tough summer for the slow men, in a tough era full stop. Take Ravindra Jadeja. It has been...
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoRichard Clarke AKA ‘The Grumbler’: You are not alone at the cricket
Richard Clarke says county grounds are the perfect place for conversation One of the most arresting and widely-praised football videos of...
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoKatya Witney: Lionesses roar as cricket misses a trick
A record crowd at The Oval, but cricket still needs to follow football’s example, writes Katya Witney The first women’s T20...
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoDarren Stevens: Get up, get down: The search for a dippy spinner
The latest rounds of Championship cricket brought a lot of success for English spinners. Rehan Ahmed and Tom Hartley both took...
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoLauren Winfield-Hill: T20 Blast on upward curve but problems persist
Tier Two finals day was good last weekend, although disappointing from a team perspective. Fair play to Middlesex, they played extremely...
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoDerek Pringle: Liam Dawson’s return poses questions for the Ashes
One Test after an eight-year hiatus, with probably another to follow at The Oval next week, is a small sample size,...
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