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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoIs there method to bananas madness?
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler The Savannah Bananas are a baseball team like no other. Owner Jesse Cole has turned around...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoPlotting a cricketing road far less travelled
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN Few things excite me quite like travel. Which is pretty fortunate when you’re...
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Ashes
/ 2 years agoThe last days of summer
OVAL OVATIONS – THE ASHES IN THE 21ST CENTURY A look back at Ashes Tests this century at The Oval where...
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Featured
/ 2 years agoFrom Fleetwood to the big time
Former Australia quick Mike Whitney talks to Richard Edwards about his surreal Test debut at Old Trafford in the 1981 Ashes...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoZak channels spirit of Beefy and Gilbert
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle There have been many great Ashes innings over the decades but for sheer bravura and lack of inhibition...
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The Definitive...
/ 2 years agoThe Definitive Sir Richard Hadlee
The Kiwi legend reflects on the biggest moments from his extraordinary career The monkey off the back 3-59, 23 & 4-71...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoFrom Hinckley home to Headingley haven
DARREN STEVENS What luck I’ve had to have played at so many different cricket grounds all over the UK and across...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 2 years agoChampionship glory is the dream for Dawson
By Richard Edwards Liam Dawson has enjoyed a fabulous season on the south coast, but despite his name being mentioned in...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 2 years agoThere’s some-Fin special about Yorks ace
By Guy Williams The encouraging form of Yorkshire’s left-handed opener, Finlay Bean, who has scored three Championship hundreds so far this...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 2 years agoFranchise fun appeals to Sam
By Ciaran McCarthy Sam Cook's stock has risen rampantly over the last few years. The Essex seamer has been a fixture...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoPassing on the legacy of Beefy
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler At the end of the first day at the Old Trafford Test, reserve umpire Martin Saggers...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoHave England closed the gap on Australia?
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN "In terms of a gap it’s just that we’ve been really consistent.” “I...
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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoWhen young Tugga dared to bounce out king Viv
Scott Oliver on when a future Aussie legend sent Sir Viv Richards tumbling in the Lancashire League In acertain corner of...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoIs this better than 2005? Not just yet
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle England’s current Test cricketers enjoy a round of golf (well, maybe not Jonny Bairstow), but so too do...
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The Definitive...
/ 2 years agoThe Definitive Devon Malcolm
The former England fast bowler looks back on his most hair-raising spells The Boycott scalp Yorkshire XI v Yorkshire Select XI,...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoPick your best keeper – and that means Foakes
DARREN STEVENS Back when I was a teenager playing for Hinckley Town CC in the early 1990s, I had an experimental...
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England News
/ 2 years agoThe true making of Mark Wood
By Richard Edwards Having watched Mark Wood tear in at Headingley, it’s hard to imagine that he was once an opening...
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County Championships
/ 2 years agoBarry’s pride carried by Kyle and Mo 50 years on
By Richard Edwards Barry Richards spent last Wednesday addressing the Hampshire Cricket Society – and, on the 50th anniversary of Hampshire’s...
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ECB Premier Leagues
/ 2 years agoHe’s all right, is Jacques
Scott Oliver on a time when one of the greatest all-rounders the world has ever seen played league cricket in the...
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Ashes
/ 2 years agoBeefy goes electric
MANCHESTER ’81 REVISITED Phil Walker recalls the last time England triumphed over Australia at Old Trafford in the Ashes In a...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoThe romance of an outground
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler It has been suggested that outground cricket represents the county game on its holidays. When you...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoA thrilling finale awaits
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN What a time it’s been for England Ashes fightbacks. After the first two...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoNasty, Brutish, Short: Facing up to real pace
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle If the boos resounding around Headingley for Pat Cummins were meant to embarrass Australia’s captain on the opening...
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The Definitive...
/ 2 years agoThe Definitive Mark Ramprakash
The former England, Middlesex and Surrey batter looks back on his run-laden career The lucky break 0 Under-11 trial with Middlesex,...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoFor a county cricketer, nothing beats Finals Day
DARREN STEVENS When I played for Leicestershire in the first-ever T20 Finals Day in 2003, few of us knew what to...
County Championships
County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
County Championships
Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
