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Ben Gardner
/ 1 year 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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Big Interview
/ 1 year agoJoe Denly: The batting yips, second chances and a lifeline from Rob Key
The Kent strokemaker Joe Denly speaks to Jo Harman-McGowan about his rollercoaster career.
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Columnists
/ 1 year agoLauren Winfield-Hill: Davina Perrin’s peak as Northern Superchargers show their sheer class
Davina Perrin’s Hundred in the Eliminator at The Oval was the kind of innings that will change her life.
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Features
/ 1 year agoTHE SHANGHAI LIFE: CLUB CRICKET IN CHINA
The Cricket Paper editor Adam Hopkins casts his mind back to his time playing cricket in China “Xià yí zhàn: Shìjì...
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Features
/ 1 year agoMACC ACADEMY PROVIDING SCHOLARSHIPS FOR PROMISING CRICKETERS
Founded by former Yorkshire and Northamptonshire seamer Moin Ashraf, the MACC Academy offers winter coaching programmes for young cricketers, both boys...
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Columnists
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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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Features
/ 1 year agoCRICKET DOMES TO BRING YEAR-ROUND SPORT TO COMMUNITIES
Cricket-loving communities in Luton and Lancashire will soon get to play all year round, after the Government today announced funding for...
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Featured
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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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Features
/ 1 year agoDurham Cricket Foundation initiative supports female coaches
The county’s foundation recently held a free coaching course to support more women to take their first steps into coaching, writes...
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Annie Chave
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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
/ 1 year 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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County News/The Hundred
/ 1 year agoMichael Eden: Hawks fest bring opportunity to Hampshire youngsters
Hampshire Cricket Board recently hosted an annual cricket festival, designed to bring young people of the county into the game. On...
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Columnists
/ 1 year 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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