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ECB Premier Leagues
/ 2 years agoWould you Adam and Eve it?
Scott Oliver on a time when Aussie great Adam Gilchrist lit up the Middlesex County League When the teenage Adam Gilchrist...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoPlay up, play up and play the game
RICHARD CLARKE 'AKA The Grumbler' About 20 years ago, I played in the Barnet Sunday League for a football team called,...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoSteve Smith –the master craftsman
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN During the week, Cricket Australia released a video of a blindfolded Steve Smith,...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoAnderson’s Ashes hanging by a thread
About five years ago I was interviewed for the job of England selector and was asked by the interview panel how...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoWhat is going on at Leicestershire?
DARREN STEVENS I’m a Leicester lover, it’s my home town and the place where I played for the first eight years...
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Features
/ 2 years agoThe Lord’s test and elitism
By Tawhid Qureshi An Ashes Test at Lord’s is normally an occasion to relish, a fixture in the British sporting calendar...
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Ashes
/ 2 years agoWhen England finally broke Lord’s hoodoo
By Rich Edwards It was June 1934 when Hedley Verity spun England to an innings victory over Australia, taking 15-104 in...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoWill anything really change?
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler The day after the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) released its report, they assembled...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoLyon’s cruel luck set to end historic streak
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN Cricket can be cruel at times, with no regard for milestones, records or...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoMacho England hooked on self-destruction
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle From Playground to the Test Arena’ was a slogan, now defunct, that the ECB once used to promote...
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Associate Nations
/ 2 years agoCricketing around the World
All-rounder Jenny Thompson embarks on a global tour For years I'd dreamed of playing and writing about women's cricket around the...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoBob helped set me free, now he’s on the Bazball trail
DARREN STEVENS My first thought when I heard that Rob Key had been appointed managing director of the England men’s cricket...
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Features
/ 2 years agoThe definitive Matt Prior
The former England and Sussex wicketkeeper reflects on an outstanding career which featured three Ashes series wins, 79 Test caps and...
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Featured
/ 2 years agoWill cricket make the Esports leap?
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler In recent years, one of the sports industry’s buzziest buzzwords has been diversification. Having built your...
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Features
/ 2 years agoA Very, Very Special guest
Scott Oliver describes the impact that legendary Indian stylist VVS Laxman made when he graced the Bradford leagues When VVS Laxman...
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Ashes
/ 2 years agoAshes war of words is nothing new
Verbals are flying this summer but these two rivals have seen and heard it all before, writes James Wallace We’re only...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoA decade on and it’s all change
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN Ten years ago I covered my first Test match as a reporter. It...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoNo turning back
DEREK PRINGLE Ozball 1, Bazball 0. Tortoise 1, Hare 0. Traditionalists 1, Disruptors 0….. just some of the headlines aired in...
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Featured
/ 2 years agoTop trio are honoured
ENGLAIND trio Lydia Greenway, Adil Rashid and Sam Curran have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours. Greenway, a two-time World...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoThe true spirit of cricket
View from Down Under THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN "Let me tell you about the time we tried to get Rusty out."...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoIf the Sugababes could see us now
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler Perhaps it is the pace of the game, the financial incentives or just the inevitable evolution...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoBewildering, but brilliant Bazball
DEREK PRINGLE This Ashes is Bazball’s big trial in the court of cricketing opinion though finding hard evidence of it in...
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Features
/ 2 years ago‘I’m 82 but I still feel young’
Enid Bakewell, the trailblazing former England all-rounder, tells Jo Harman about how she had to sell potatoes to fund her career...
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Ashes
/ 2 years agoEdgbaston Ashes Classics
This week’s 2023 instalment is the 16th Ashes Test played between England and Australia in Birmingham. We pick out five memorable...
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Ashes
/ 2 years agoGower gives Bazball the thumbs up
The former England captain is backing Bazball to emulate the impact of 1981 and 2005 to lift the mood of the...
County Championships
County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
County Championships
Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
