Ashes
Once more into the cauldron: Adam Hopkins on the Ashes winter ahead
This is the last edition of this season and we are now on our usual winter break. The Cricket Paper will return in spring for the...
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Ashes
/ 2 months agoHow much of a blow would Pat Cummins’ potential Ashes absence be for Australia?
With still a little over six weeks away until the highly anticipated Ashes gets underway, the series has already had a...
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England News
/ 2 months agoIn Review: Mercurial England continue to bewitch and bewilder
Phil Walker revisits another unpredictable and compulsively watchable summer trying to keep up with England’s men’s teams
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Columnists
/ 3 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
/ 3 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
/ 3 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
/ 3 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
/ 3 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
/ 3 months agoHUNDRED’S INFLUENCE BITES AS ONE-DAY CUP FEELS THE PINCH
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler The shadows were lengthening at Old Trafford on Tuesday evening when, with three balls left, three...
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Featured
/ 3 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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Featured
/ 3 months agoEDWARDS TRIES TO SOLVE WORLD CUP CONUNDRUM
LAUREN WINFIELD-HILL Two into one won’t go: Lauren Filer will open the bowling rather than Kate Cross PICTURE: Alamy Kate Cross...
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England News
/ 3 months agoPhil Walker: England go back to the future for World Cup
England Women have reintroduced a couple of familiar faces into their World Cup squad ahead of the showpiece in India and...
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Columnists
/ 3 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
/ 3 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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Champions Trophy
/ 3 months agoAnthony McGrath aiming for top flight survival with Yorkshire
In just over a fortnight, Yorkshire resume playing Championship cricket with the first of three vital games which will decide if...
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County Championships
/ 3 months agoAlex Green is breaking through at Leicestershire
The One-Day Cup has become synonymous with the blooding of new talent and Leicestershire’s fast bowler Alex Green, is at the...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 3 months agoKira Chathli answers “surprising” Hundred call
The performances of Kira Chathli, for both Surrey and London Spirit, have made her a strong contender for this season’s breakout...
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County Championships
/ 3 months agoTearing it up: Sussex star Charlie Tear shows a different gear
Charlie Tear was a man in a hurry on Sunday as he tore into the Northamptonshire bowling to smash 159 off...
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Ben Gardner
/ 3 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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Featured
/ 3 months agoBOPARA: “ONE DAY I WANT TO COACH ENGLAND”
The great stylist opens up to Phil Walker about Northants, his England career, and his coaching ambitions Ravi Bopara is enjoying...
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Columnists
/ 4 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
/ 4 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
/ 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 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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County Championships
/ 4 months agoCounty Championship Transfers: Merry go round begins as Tymal Mills misses out with OnlyFans logo ban
The to and fro of county players at this stage of the season as sides prepare for next is pretty bewildering...
County Championships
County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
County Championships
Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
