All posts tagged "Ashes"
-
Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – You don’t need style to make runs, just ask Colly!
I was watching a clip from an oldTest match the other day and was mildly surprised, given that the Government’s Health...
-
Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoTristan Lavalette column – Aussies gearing up for an Ashes hijack…
There is much goodwill suddenly fostering within Australian cricket after a successful rebirth and seamless transition into a new era. Following...
-
Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoCounty archives – Derbyshire 1936
The local lads who delivered the county’s finest moment Respected cricket writer Paul Edwards goes back 80 years to run the...
-
International News
/ 9 years agoWhen Harmy had them on the hop at Sabina Park
Garfield Robinson relives the carnage at Sabina Park of 2004 when Steve Harmison gave the Windies some of their own medicine...
-
Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoTristan Lavalette column – Enough is enough. Let’s stop Shielding the blame
For Australia and its beleaguered fans, a ray of sunshine has suddenly emerged from the bleak clouds thickening after a nightmarish...
-
News
/ 9 years agoWe’ve come a long way but work still to be done
Francis Kelly speaks to England Women’s head coach Mark Robinson just over a year into the role Mark Robinson took on...
-
International News
/ 9 years agoAdelaide still in pink as England prepare for big Ashes turn-on
Alison Mitchell analyses the ongoing experiment with day-night Tests and discovers the numbers are still stacking up What a difference a...
-
Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Gloves labours lost – Or a comedy of errors
The first cricket related Christmas present I ever got was a scorers’ book, although I’d only got through one pencil (mainly...
-
Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoCounty archives – Durham 2013
When Onions and the boys showed that Northeast spirit… Continuing our new series, Paul Edwards rewinds only three years to relive...
-
International News
/ 9 years agoEbony-Jewel Rainford-Brent
The cricketing career of Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent contains many notable achievements, such as the first black woman to play for the England...
-
International News
/ 9 years agoCook has much more to offer his young charges
Alison Mitchell believes Alastair Cook, despite hinting at standing down as skipper, is the right man to take England forward Alastair...
-
Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Rousing speeches work but so does laughter
Chandika Hathurusingha is not given to tub thumping but his words to Bangladesh’s cricketers, as they stood poised between victory and...
-
International News
/ 10 years agoWe always wanted to take cricket back home, says Najam Sethi
By Tahir Ibn Manzoor The Pakistan Cricket Board, especially former chairman Naseem Ashraf, must take credit for floating the idea of...
-
Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – Aussies on the ball in bid to end Ashes failures
Australia’s government has declared it will not do business with the UK until it has left the European Union but one...
-
International News
/ 10 years agoIt was a battle that Tres simply could never win
Ten years on, Peter Hayter looks at the brave call by Marcus Trescothick to face his demons and leave the international...
-
Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – I’m missing fast show but Agnew and Lloyd won’t be…
There is no finer sight in cricket than a genuinely fast bowler in full cry, mixing up the 100mph inswinging toe-crushers...
-
International News
/ 10 years agoHales may survive but there can be no place for Vince
Chris Stocks looks ahead to the winter double tour to Bangladesh and India and chooses his party for the arduous trip...
-
Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – Remember, fifth day gave us Botham’s ‘miracle’
England’s victory in the third Test at Edgbaston was a shot in the arm for five-day Test cricket, but it was...
-
International News
/ 10 years agoYes, step on it James, it may just speed up a return to spin
Derek Pringle analyses the law surrounding bowlers running onto the pitch and offers an unexpected conclusion For bowlers, especially angry, fast...
-
Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Yorkshire – C&G Trophy winners 2002
By Neil Fissler Yorkshire had endured a long 14-year wait for trophies between winning the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1987...
-
International News
/ 10 years agoRoot’s aiming to be best in world by time of Ashes
Chris Stocks talks to Joe Root about his mission to succeed in next year’s Ashes series Down Under Joe Root...
-
Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – Let’s admit it, we’ve never had a leggie to stand on!
It wasn’t a huge surprise when Moeen Ali came waltzing down the pitch in the second innings at Lord’s. After all,...
-
Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – Squabbles, insults, threats… Oh yes, it’s Pakistan!
England and Pakistan will not be playing for anything tangible this summer, like the Ashes, but given that their cricketing history...
-
Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – This was never about scoring points!
What a thriller that was on Tuesday, and one thing is for certain – nobody on the pitch was thinking that...
-
International News
/ 10 years agoBorthwick looks the likely lad but there are other options
Derek Pringle looks at the contenders for England’s number three spot, and highlights two alternatives for the selectors Every decade or...
County Championships
Key talking points from Round Five of the County Championship
County Championships
County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
ICC Champions Trophy
What now for England and Jos Buttler after Champions Trophy exit?
County Championships
Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
