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Annie Chave
/ 8 months agoAnnie Chave: Fighting for relevance as the new era dawns
The final week of the English domestic cricket season looms against a backdrop of arguments over player fatigue, a seemingly endless...
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Ben Gardner
/ 8 months agoBen Gardner: Nottinghamshire step up as Peter Moores eyes history
It will take a miracle now, or a catastrophe, depending on your point of view.
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoLauren Winfield-Hill: Common sense triumphs as Yorkshire & England plan ahead
Getting a trophy in the cabinet in the Tier Two One Day cup final last weekend was the perfect sign off...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoMark Butcher: Proteas ODI defeat showed best and worst of Harry Brook’s England
England’s rollercoaster ODI series against South Africa summed up where they currently are as a side.
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoDarren Stevens: The One-Day Cup – Frankenstein come good
Finals are coming thick and fast. The T20 Blast yesterday, Surrey v Notts starting tomorrow (unofficially a Championship final), the men’s...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoKatya Witney: Fond farewells as World Cup will be legends’ last hurrah
The pinnacle of the men’s game differs from player to player. Ask an England or Australia Test player, and they’ll tell...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoLauren Winfield-Hill: No point looking beyond the Aussies for Word Cup glory
As the World Cup comes ever closer, it’s almost time to start making predictions for which team is going to come...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoRichard Clarke: The one where we don’t know who wins
Famously, episodes of Friends were always named the same way. The convention began with “The One”. For example, ‘The One with...
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoMark Butcher: Name changes risk undermining the Hundred’s good work
After the most successful edition of The Hundred yet, in terms of both the quality of cricket and audience engagement, there...
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Ben Gardner
/ 8 months agoBen Gardner: Adam Zampa’s flight turns a spotlight on cricket’s eco-unfriendliness
The very best spinners won’t just test you off the pitch, they’ll beat you in the flight, and when it comes...
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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
/ 9 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
/ 9 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
/ 9 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
/ 9 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
/ 9 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
/ 9 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
/ 9 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
/ 9 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
/ 9 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
/ 9 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
/ 9 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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