…In 2016, a sad irony became detectable: at the very moment Ireland’s cries are being heard – notwithstanding the ridiculous decision to go ahead with the 10-team World Cup in…
…handful of matches for Nottinghamshire because of his England commitments where he has contributed to four Ashes victories, taken two Test hat-tricks and won the World T20 with England in…
…Australia’s Twenty20 International ambitions.” Ponting scored more than 27,000 runs in his international career and was a part of three World Cup-winning squads, captaining the side to the trophy in…
…the website of Sheffield Collegiate, it is “one of the world’s finest cricket clubs”. That’s quite a claim from the Yorkshire South Premier League team, although having produced one former…
…and provincial cricket. In a packed schedule, there will be first-class matches for the four provinces in the Logan Cup, a forty-over Zimbabwe Premier League, fifty-over List A games for…
…for giving up the best and the worst job in world cricket and some are better than others, but in Cook’s case quitting with dignity and purpose could be one…
Among all the law changes proposed by MCC’s World Cricket Committee comes the shock that one is designed to aid bowlers. As ever, with committees, the devil is in the…
…have worked closely with Team Kookaburra players around the world on research and development to ensure that they continue to produce bats to the highest quality with a range of…
…was not the answer, while Greenidge and Haynes were the best and most aggressive openers in world cricket. They also had Collis King as well as the estimable Thelston Payne…
…a Test match at Headingley in 2004 when a message came out that his wife had gone into labour, and Kevin Pietersen left the West Indies during the 2010 World…
…under lights with the first two weeks of the Australian cricket season dominated by the Matador Cup. The Big Bash League’s (BBL) increasing popularity has consigned the 50-over tournament to…
…place to the side he inherited, with the team that recently guaranteed qualification for next summer’s England and Wales-held World Cup fielding seven different players to his maiden starting XI….
…founded by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is known as the ‘Home of Cricket’ around the world. Some of the standout items are available in-store at St John’s Wood, London…
…Root they possess two of the best top-order batsmen in world cricket, while Ben Stokes is the best all-rounder and Jonny Bairstow the best wicket-keeper batsman. Then we have James…
…mindset issue though. Ben is one of the best sweepers in world cricket. He sweeps, he slog sweeps, he reverse sweeps and I think, if he was playing for Northants,…
…in a Somerset v Leicestershire Gillette Cup game at Taunton in 1973. The visitors were all but beaten at 50-5 chasing 213 to win, but when Parks got injured Brian…
…New World Symphony. But Onions’ fondness for his roots in the Northeast was shared by many of his team-mates. While Durham’s success in 2013 owed something to the contribution of…
…Thomas was perhaps most renowned as one of the best death bowlers in the shorter format. Despite only playing one T20 international, his success in leagues all over the world…
Richard Edwards speaks to an England great behind the stumps about the form of their current gloveman Jonny Bairstow has been hailed as a world beater by former England star…
…A1 home, in bounces Boycott to commiserate. “Bad luck lads, it’s a crap game when world’s best opening batsman has to drop down the order and doesn’t even get in.”…
…from field to hand. The fact that the best players in the world, past and present use their bats is no coincidence, so it goes almost without saying that Gray-Nicolls…
…at the 9th ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in 2009, she and the England team went on to win the 2009 ICC Women’s World Twenty20, the Natwest One Day series…
…go out and prove the doubters wrong. It’s all about character, it’s so important in any team. The very best in the world average 50 but they want to get…
…they gave up on the team full stop. Switching to Pat Cash winning the Davis Cup for Australia, and ignoring the cricket altogether. When it was all over, Gatting suggested…
…pit the world’s highest-ranked side against the best that the rest of the world had to offer. It was, according to Speed, a ‘thrilling’ prospect. “The creation of the ICC…