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Richard Clarke: It’s The Grumbler’s 2025 County Awards!
Well, ladies and gentlemen, here we are again. While self-praise is no praise, we like to think the Grumbler’s End of Season Awards have become a...
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Columnists
/ 3 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
/ 4 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
/ 4 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
/ 5 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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Columnists
/ 6 months agoRichard Clarke: Jack Bond, Jacob Bethell and the catching revolution
Richard Clarke on how our understanding of fielding has changed If you want to make an old Lancastrian go misty-eyed for...
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Columnists
/ 6 months agoRichard Clarke: Let style triumph over substance
It is the go-to hack for the lazy stylist. If you want to invoke an air of old-fashioned class, elegance and...
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Columnists
/ 6 months agoRichard Clarke: Let’s get creative
The wagons are circling around the County Championship ahead of another review.
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/ 7 months agoRichard Clarke: What lessons can the Women’s game learn from football
Regular readers of this column will know my grave concerns for the future of county cricket are partly informed by my...
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoRichard Clarke: Let’s not hear it for the County Championship
By Richard Clarke, AKA The Grumbler Far be it from me to disagree with heavy metal gods AC/ DC, but rock’n’roll...
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Columnists
/ 8 months 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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Club Cricket
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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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Featured
/ 1 year agoANYONE FOR TENNIS?
Richard Clarke Richard Clarke wonders, with Test cricket likely to be played in a window in future, what the sport could...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoACCESS ALL AREAS
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler RICHARD CLARKE SAYS ENGLISH CRICKET NEEDS TO GET ENGAGED Everything we’ve done up until now isn’t...
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ICC Cricket World Cup
/ 1 year agoTHE HISTORY BOYS
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler The phrase “history is written by the winners” has been widely misattributed. Ironically, most people believe...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 1 year agoRapid pace of change sees members stuck in the middle
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler This column is called The Grumbler for good reason. It is the pseudonym I first used...
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County Championships
/ 2 years agoThe hare and the tortoise
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler If Jerry Springer was still on the telly, my relationship with the County Championship would be...
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Featured
/ 2 years agoFocus on the fans
By RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler How red-ball cricket can survive if attention is paid to those who are still paying...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoTime for transfer talk to get real
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler In the next week or so, the county cricket rumour mill will start to turn. On...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoThe long goodbye?
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler As you might expect from one of the world’s most literate sports, county cricket has been...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 2 years agoHandle with care
RICHARD CLARKE This week, two contrasting voices uttered the most sacrilegious statement in British sport – the Premier League is becoming...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoListening to the voices of reason
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler Picture the scene. In 20 years’ time, the first Grumbler grandchild clambers upon my knee as...
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County Championships
/ 2 years agoGrounds for concern
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler My local non-league football club were eyeing promotion before the winter flooding. But between Boxing Day...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoOf county and country
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler For many Essex fans, Stuart Turner remains something of a folk hero. Yes, Graham Gooch bullied...
County Championships
County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
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Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
