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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – There’d be no fun if Geoffrey’s mum was at No.11
There are one or two instances in which Wisden’s claim to be cricket’s unimpeachable bible fails to stand up to serious...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – Why the ICC masterplan should not spare Ashes
A cautious welcome to the ICC’s proposal to offer those nations currently excluded from the closed shop of Test cricket a...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoUmpires are unsung heroes of our game
Neil Bainton, in his tenth season as a first-class umpire, reveals to Rob Johnstone that the growth of T20 means the...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – Finn must eye up the prey and hit the deck hard
There is another game Steven Finn appears to be playing alongside cricket at the moment – Snakes and Ladders. Finn, a...
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International News
/ 10 years agoGillespie stays on but suitors will still circle
YORKSHIRE coach Jason Gillespie ended all speculation, for now at least, by confirming that he will not be leaving Headingley to...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Batters beware: A team can fold any time
It’s been nice to see wickets falling in the County Championship now after batsmen dominated the opening few weeks, but there...
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International News
/ 10 years agoWe Test lovers must fight to prove KP’s no Mystic Meg
Peter Hayter launches an impassioned defence of the five-day game after the latest attack from the former England captain Don’t it...
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International News
/ 10 years agoUniverse Boss must let real bat do talking from now on
Derek Pringle is always prepared to listen to players who go off-message but feels that Chris Gayle has gone too far...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Glamorgan – National League winners 2002 & 2004
By Neil Fissler Mike Powell believes that the key strength of Glamorgan at the turn of the millennium was that the...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – It’s poor timing again for Graves & T20 Blast
On the face of it, the eve of the start of this season’s NatWest Blast should have been the ideal time...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – ‘Sorry, you will have to write it in office. I can’t cope’
It’s not difficult to conjure up the scene in the Sri Lankan dressing room just before the start of the Headingley...
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Club Cricket
/ 10 years agoUK Sports Fans Offered Chance To Play With Professional Cricket Legends
An events and experience company in the UK is offering a ‘Play With A Cricket Legend’ package; a once-in-a-lifetime experience to...
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Club Cricket
/ 10 years agoLondon youngsters battle it out at Lord’s in disability cricket championships
Teams from across the Capital battled it out at the home of cricket on Friday in the Lord’s Taverners Disability Cricket...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Thank God… it’s not like Nineties anymore
It wasn’t just in the international set-up that there were ups and downs in the 1990s. The Nineties era was almost...
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International News
/ 10 years agoEngland lost throughout the 1990s – because rivals were the all-time greats
Emma John knew nothing but defeat as a fan of 90s England. But were Atherton’s Army really that bad? It can...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – Cozier: A radio star and a top party host to boot
Cricket down here is the poorer for his passing, but for listeners to the celestial version of Test Match Special –...
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International News
/ 10 years agoRoot is England’s man for all the occasions
Chris Stocks looks at the rise of Joe Root – England’s Player of the Year When Joe Root swept the board...
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International News
/ 10 years agoEngland need Compton’s glue factor for success
Peter Hayter believes England have made the right call on retaining the services of Nick Compton… for now! By resisting calls...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – North v South… It’s not so cut and dry for me
It is difficult to know whether the North v South one-day series stated for next March is an innovation, a throwback,...
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International News
/ 10 years agoMickey Arthur – How ‘homework-gate’ made me a better coach
Tristan Lavalette talks to Mickey Arthur, who will coach his new charges Pakistan on their England tour his summer It isn’t...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Westley has look of future England Test star
Tom Westley has not been selected in England’s squad for the first Test against Sri Lanka, but if he carries on...
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Women's Cricket
/ 10 years agoCharlotte Edwards took women’s cricket to a whole new level
Alison Mitchell pays tribute to Charlotte Edwards after she said farewell to international cricket The Charlotte Edwards era is over. After...
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International News
/ 10 years agoSaddened Sanga urges Sri Lanka to follow England blueprint
By Chris Stocks Sri Lankan great Kumar Sangakkara has launched a scathing attack on the cricketing system in his homeland, admitting...
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Twenty20
/ 10 years agoSam is happy to follow IPL route to top Billings
By Francis Kelly Sam Billings was completing his first year of A-Levels when the inaugural Indian Premier League tournament began. He...
