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Annie Chave
/ 8 months 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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/ 1 year agoLOOSE-TONGUED HARRY RECEIVES LESSON IN LEADERSHIP
ARK BUTCHER It’s been an eventful week for Harry Brook, who came under fire for his comments after England’s defeat to...
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/ 1 year agoSUNRISERS ON THE UP AS SUN SETS ON RHFT
katya witney Regional cricket bowed out last weekend with the final of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. While the game went...
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/ 1 year agoA DAMP SQUIB, BUT END OF REGIONAL ERA FEELS PREMATURE
DARREN STEVENS It was a funny old way to bring down the curtain on women’s regional cricket. Saturday at Grace Road,...
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/ 1 year agoHANDING OUT THE GONGS
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler Tap. Tap. Can you hear me at the back? Thumbs up? Super. Good evening, ladies and...
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/ 1 year agoA CHAMPION OF A SEASON
BECAUSE... COUNTY CRICKET MATTERS ANNIE CHAVE In the ECB laboratory, the domestic game is laid bare, its schedule trailing across the...
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Featured
/ 1 year agoTriple tons build big Essex lead
By Martin Smith After a rain-dominated first two days in which Essex reached 116 for 1, Essex batters Dean Elgar, Tom...
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Featured
/ 1 year agoHANDING OUT THE GONGS
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumblerr Tears of joy: Gloucestershire president Syd Lawrence gets his hands on the Blast trophy PICTURES: Alamy...
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Derek Pringle
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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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Columnists
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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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Featured
/ 1 year agoBen Gardner column: The problem of the stuffed suitcase
That was the quarter-finals week that was. It wasn’t quite a classic, with only one game threatening thriller status, but still...
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/ 1 year agoWHERE ARE WE GOING AND HOW DO WE GET THERE?
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler It is all very well agreeing a “direction of travel” but what happens when you have...
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Derek Pringle
/ 1 year agoDerek Pringle column: DRS protocols over lbw need to change now
Master and apprentice is a phrase you often hear when Joe Root and Harry Brook are at the crease together. Yet...
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England News
/ 1 year agoEbony Rainford-Brent: Time to acknowledge Joe Root as one of the greats
Looking back on the first day at Lord’s, England were struggling for rhythm and just as they started to get going,...
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England News
/ 1 year agoMark Butcher: England star Jamie Smith is a natural-born thriller
What a start Jamie Smith has made to his England Test career. The most extraordinary thing is how comfortable he’s looked...
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Darren Stevens
/ 1 year agoBlink before you miss it: Finals Day looms for lucky eight
There aren’t many bigger days in the county calendar than the T20 quarter-finals, which take place later this week. I say...
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Annie Chave
/ 1 year agoAnnie Chave column: Money talks but memberships matter
Apart from its rich legacy, and the historical importance of the games that are played in a fiercely competitive division structure,...
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Featured
/ 1 year agoEYE ON THE FUTURE AS SQUADS ANNOUNCED
KATYA WITNEY On Day One of the Lord’s Test match, a handful of the written media gathered in an overly large...
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/ 1 year agoSECOND BY NAME, NOT BY NATURE
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler Worth a Seconds look: Radlett looking glorious in the sunshine You could clearly hear the sniggers...
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Derek Pringle
/ 1 year agoPOPEWATCH: ANALYSING THE SKIPPER
Derek Pringle @derekpringle Mike Brearley wrote a whole book on the art of it while Richie Benaud distilled it down to...
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoJamie Smith ton shows he feels at home at six
Ebony Rainford-Brent IG is the Official Investment Platform of England Cricket. Find out how you can win tickets to England vs...
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