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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
/ 10 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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Ben Gardner
/ 10 months agoBen Gardner: Less is more? Counties have their say on 2026 schedule
The battle lines are being drawn, the media releases readied, the statements disseminated. County cricket’s civil war is here and it’s…...
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Columnists
/ 10 months agoLauren Winfield-Hill: England not far off despite series losses
The first thing to address from the final ODI of the summer in Durham was the interview Sophie Ecclestone gave ahead...
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Columnists
/ 10 months agoMark Butcher: Jofra Archer adds extra spice to sizzling England vs India series
The Lord’s nailbiter was a throwback of a Test match where conditions dictated the way the game was played. England realised...
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Columnists
/ 10 months agoDarren Stevens: Umpires must crack the whip – but we love a bit of needle
Just before tea on that extraordinary final day at Lord’s, in the midst of an astonishing rearguard innings that nearly pulled...
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Columnists
/ 10 months agoKatya Witney: Lack of real jeopardy is masking Blast advances
Katya Witney says that while the first year has been solid, a format tweak would have added excitement It’s not so...
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Columnists
/ 10 months agoLauren Winfield-Hill: Time slipping away for confused England
Having lost in Southampton and with just two games of the international summer left, the biggest worry now for England is...
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Columnists
/ 10 months agoDerek Pringle: Joys of Jofra Archer tempered by long road ahead
Until two days ago Jofra Archer had not bowled a ball in Test cricket for four years, a litany of injuries...
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Columnists
/ 10 months agoToby Reynolds: Putting the community at the heart of things
Toby Reynolds on a heart-warming story of a tour that creates special memories Every summer for the last 44 years, a...
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Ben Gardner
/ 10 months agoBen Gardner: Wiaan Mulder can’t do right for doing wrong
Ben Gardner salutes South Africa’s stand-in captain for his grand gesture Wiaan Mulder had just had one of the best days...
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Columnists
/ 10 months agoLauren Winfield-Hill: Sloppy England need to sharpen up
It’s hard to pinpoint one factor behind England’s losses to India, because none of it has been good enough. There have...
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Annie Chave
/ 10 months agoAnnie Chave: A walk in York epitomises cricket’s outground charms
The recent journeys I have made to cricket outgrounds across the country have added a new and delightful dimension to my...
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Columnists
/ 10 months agoDerek Pringle: Flogged bowlers highlight perils of Bazball
The blueprint for winning Tests is a simple one for Ben Stokes and his England team. Play on shirtfront pitches that...
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Columnists
/ 10 months agoDarren Stevens: Time to give the County Championship a showcase final
A little less than three weeks ago, South Africa were crowned Test champions after defying the odds to beat Australian in...
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Columnists
/ 10 months agoKatya Witney: Shackled England still haunted by Winter demons
England appear unable to shake off the hangover from a confidence-shattering winter, writes Katya Witney England Women’s losses in the first...
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Columnists
/ 10 months agoRichard Clarke: Let’s bin the Kookaburra experiment, and fast
The first principle of experimentation is that you must not fool yourself,” said the eminent scientist, Richard Feynman. “And you are...
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