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Columnists
/ 1 year agoRichard Clarke: Now is not the time for us to tune out
By now, every county member, bar the doughty devotees of New Road, will have had a chance to see their side...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoDarren Stevens: Invincibles at The Oval… or are they?
Ahead of the first game of the season at Northampton, Adam Hollioake, Kent’s new head coach, called a team meeting.
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: When two became one…
The early days of co-habiting are usually frantic. There are arguments over whose stuff you keep and what goes where and...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoMark Butcher: Surrey’s unrivalled depth makes them strong favourites for the County Championship
By Mark Butcher We’ve seen a lot of runs scored in pre-season warm-ups, and I expect that trend to continue in...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoBen Gardner: County Championship isn’t just a shop window for England
Ben Gardner says that Championship success is enough of a pull on its own.
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Annie Chave
/ 1 year agoAnnie Chave Column: Saving Counties at the cost of County Cricket
Despite county cricket’s new-found riches, Annie Chave is worried about the future...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoMatt Thacker: Snow business at Buxton Cricket Club
By Matt Thacker You might be able to remember the long, hot summer of 1976. Parched lawns, bleached cricket grounds, Michael...
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Columnists
/ 2 years agoMark Butcher: Ben Stokes uncertainty creates England dilemma
As England prepared for the first match of their three-Test series in Pakistan, they were faced with a familiar conundrum.
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Columnists
/ 2 years agoMark Butcher: Glib Harry Brook receives lesson in leadership
It has been an eventful week for Harry Brook, who came under fire for his comments after England’s defeat to Australia...
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoKatya Witney: Sunrisers win Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy send-off
Regional women's cricket bowed out last weekend with the final of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, won by Sunrisers.
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoDarren Stevens: Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy ends regional era
It was a funny old way to bring down the curtain on women’s regional cricket on Saturday at Grace Road in...
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Annie Chave
/ 2 years agoAnnie Chave: County Championship season one to remember
In the ECB laboratory, the domestic game is laid bare, its schedule trailing across the table as technicians busily fiddle with...
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoMark Butcher: Gloucestershire show T20 Blast retains magic
Gloucestershire went into Finals Day as the rank outsiders but delivered a stunning performance to win their first T20 trophy.
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Ben Gardner
/ 2 years agoBen Gardner: Sussex’s solid season points to a bright future
For Sussex, at the start of this year, simply not ending the season in crisis would have marked a form of...
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoDarren Stevens: Gloucestershire deserving T20 Blast champions
After Gloucestershire’s heroics a week ago, I can’t hide my pleasure at seeing a smaller county triumph on domestic cricket’s biggest...
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoRichard Clarke: Luke Fletcher, Joe Leach a dying breed
There was a time when Luke Fletcher’s preparation for a cricket match consisted of two paracetamols plus a double sausage and...
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoRichard Clarke: T20 Blast finals day is magical, unique
It is 10am on September 4, 1993 and I am shouting at cricket fans as they shuffle into Lord’s. To a...
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoKatya Witney: Women’s cricket at crossroads ahead of restructuring
September is weird. Cricket season desperately tries to extend the summer warmth, entering its sixth month as nights start to creep...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoBowlers need the art of surprise to fight back
By Derek Pringle It was Ricky Ponting who spotted it on commentary and only then after a battery of replays. But...
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England News
/ 2 years agoNissanka exposes England’s naivety
By Mark Butcher Pathum Nissanka’s century to inflict a first Test defeat of the summer on England was fabulous to watch....
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoNothing as graceful as a Moeen Ali drive, except for the man himself…
By Darren Stevens After Moeen Ali announced his international retirement last week, I looked up how many times I came up...
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Annie Chave
/ 2 years agoThere’s Tea In Every Team – Because County Cricket Matters
By Annie Chave Recently, my cricket team played a friendly 20-over game. It was an absorbing contest that had me on...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoDerek Pringle: Small is beautiful for England opener Ben Duckett
At 5ft 6in Ben Duckett is in the small camp. But small batters have advantages even if looking up to everyone...
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Columnists
/ 2 years agoEbony Rainford-Brent: After a solid summer, England will look to dominate winter tours
It’s a new-look England team at the moment and it is a direction that Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes have wanted...
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England News
/ 2 years agoMark Butcher on Gus Atkinson: A new star with old-fashioned virtues
An incredible start to Gus Atkinson’s Test career. His century at Lord’s was outrageous, it will be fascinating to see how...
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