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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoA fond farewell to the too-gentle giant
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Steven Finn never had the slick, repeatable action to be England’s Curtly Ambrose but he should have been...
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Features
/ 2 years agoHemp had cricket world at her feet
By Richard Edwards "Time will tell if she has made the right decision,” laughs Pete Free, head of women and girls’...
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoWhen Immy met Nathan
Scott Oliver looks back to when he signed, and then captained, Imran Tahir in club cricket Imran had arrived in time...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoJust me, my boy, and the Oval Invincibles
DARREN STEVENS A week or so ago I had the perfect view of Spencer Johnson’s 3-1 – that’s three wickets for...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoA method to Jack’s madness
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler It is apt that, during a summer in which the bucket hat is once again English...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoDomestic bliss
Too much cricket? English cricket fans should be grateful for the range and quality of games they have access to VIEW...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoOverseas churn sees steep drop in quality
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Allan Border was an uncompromising cricketer but even he took that to extremes in 1986 at Ilford’s Valentines...
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoLightning strikes again and again…
Scott Oliver on a time when Allan Donald lit up the league with Rishton Friday night, eve of the match, end...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoPenny for your thoughts, coach
DARREN STEVENS A few years ago, Paul Downton, Kent’s director of cricket, told me that my playing days were up and...
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England News
/ 2 years agoThe making of a legend
A trip through Stuart Broad’s 17 years at the top August 28, 2006: Only T20I v Pakistan, County Ground, Bristol Stuart...
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Ashes
/ 2 years agoThe best of the tributes to Stuart Board
Test best: Broad walks off after hitting 169 against Pakistan Glenn McGrath, writing for the BBC: Australia may have always cast...
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Features
/ 2 years agoHundred High can lift us to a new level
Jon Culley talks to Lucy Higham about how The Hundred has helped benefit the women’s game Women’s cricket has witnessed seismic...
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Ashes
/ 2 years agoSimply, an unforgettable Ashes series
We take a look at the key moments from a summer that will live long in the memory Can they do...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 2 years agoAce Wharton blossoming as ‘the new Root’
By Graham Hardcastle Janes Wharton has in the past been likened to Joe Root. The comparisons were obvious when then young...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoDestination India: Can Bazball do dustbowls?
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Not content with Bazball wowing us last summer, the sceptics immediately wondered how it would go in the...
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoBe afraid…be very afraid!
Scott Oliver recounts the time when Courtney Walsh tore it up in the Northumberland league If you were a mechanic from...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoHe was just a scrawny kid, but you knew he was something special
DARREN STEVENS It was always going to finish with Stuart Broad. Those cricketing gods… There I was thinking I’d had a...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoLook how much it’s changed!
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler Late in the evening on September 7, 1963, a musical variety show at the Victoria Palace...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoIt was the series that just had everything!
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN Is anyone else suffering from post-Ashes blues? When we were immersed in the...
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Featured
/ 2 years ago40-OVER FORMAT IS MISSED
I’VE played all sorts of forms of one-day cricket in my career: 60 overs, 50 overs, 45 overs, 40 overs. I...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoCummins stands alone as the true titan of Summer
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle If Australia had been able to catch during England’s first innings at The Oval then Pat Cummins would...
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Featured
/ 2 years agoOverton and Henry powering Cidermen
By Jeremy Blackmore Craig Overton is feeling close to his best after helping to spearhead the Somerset attack which played a...
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Featured
/ 2 years agoUDAL: MY LIFE WAS TURNED INSIDE OUT
Former England, Hampshire and Middlesex off-spinner Shaun Udal has bravely spoken out about living with Parkinson’s disease in his bid to...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoWhere stars are born (and swansongs sung!)
DARREN STEVENS The return of the One-Day Cup this week stirs some happy memories from last year. Having previously lost three...
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Featured
/ 2 years agoJOE CONTRIBUTES TO OLD PALS’ ACT
Joe Root’s scintillating one-handed snaffle at first slip to dismiss Marnus Labuschagne off Mark Wood was a one-off – but only...
County Championships
County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
County Championships
Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
