All posts tagged "david gower"
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A Cricket Life
/ 11 months agoA Cricket Life with Jonathan Agnew
A regular feature charting the lives of the game’s stars, this week the TMS frontman – who will stand down as...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoCalmore still buzzing from their big day at Lord’s
By Richard Edwards IT has been party time in a small corner of Southampton this week after Calmore’s National Village triumph...
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ECB Premier Leagues
/ 4 years agoBeefy set to play for the Lords team
CRICKET legends and members of the Houses of Parliament and Lords will compete in a charity cricket match next month. The...
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Featured
/ 4 years ago‘LORD TED’ WAS JUST AN ALL-ROUND GREAT
Roderick Easdale looks back on the life of Ted Dexter, who died this week at the age of 86 Ted Dexter...
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Cricket Paper
/ 5 years agoZAK ATTACK!
Crawley and Buttler smash records galore to put Pakistan to the sword in final Test Smile of a hero: Zak Crawley...
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Featured
/ 5 years agoMEMORIES LURKING IN BACK OF A CUPBOARD
MARTIN JOHNSON One of the stranger spin-offs from the Covid lockdown was the way hitherto humdrum activities became positively stimulating. The...
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Ashes
/ 6 years agoGower bids his Sky farewell with some sympathy for Root
By Richard Edwards Over and out: David Gower in the Sky commentary box DAVID GOWER reluctantly bows out of the Sky...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoRun records tumble but don’t satisfy the bosses
By Richard Rae So near but yet so far: Ryan Higgins fell just one run short of a double century PICTURE:...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoWRATH OF WOODERS WOULDN’T BE LOST ON HALES
MARTIN JOHNSON Whatever recreational substance Alex Hales was on, presumably from somewhere other than over the counter at Boots, there was...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoJohnson column: Tiger at Augusta? Nothing beats the comeback of David Gower
A washout at Cheltenham in the 1980s, surely no chance of play – at least is what players and the press...
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Features
/ 6 years agoKohli’s the closest we have had to The Don
Garfield Robinson compares the talents of Virat Kohli to that of the great Sir Don Bradman and explains why the Indian...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoMartin Johnson column: No bruising paceman will forgo their fear factor
When a batsman's bottle was broken. But bowlers can be vulnerable too to their short fuses
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Featured
/ 6 years agoLIFE ON TOUR: AIR SCARES, MUD CRABS ANDQUOITS…
MARTIN JOHNSON If there’s one thing shrinking faster than the Amazonian rainforest or an Arctic glacier, it’s the overseas cricket tour....
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Featured
/ 7 years agoIT’S TIME TO SHINE LIGHT ON CRICKET’S DARK SIDE
MARTIN JOHNSON How uplifting, I thought, as the cameras panned around the ground at Lord’s last week to see so many...
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Test Matches
/ 7 years agoLORD’S CAN BE MAGICAL, BUT ALSO SCARY, FOR DEBUTANTS
It will be a nerve-racking business for Ollie Pope to make his Test debut at Lord’s – just like I did...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoPICKING A DUFFERS XI? YOU’D BE HERE ALL DAY…
MARTIN JOHNSON Regular viewers of Sky’s closeof- play cricket programme The Verdict may be surprised to learn that the death penalty...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoNew scheme launched allowing fans to buy shares in Nursery End at Lord’s
Consortium involving David Gower takes measure to create funds to buy land but the media centre at the Home of Cricket
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County Championships
/ 7 years agoWHY I STILL WANT VINCE TO BEAT HIS TEST HOODOO
The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events SIMON SWEETMAN No big scores: James Vince Oh, James Vince! A batsman of...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoThe sex and drug-fuelled tour to New Zealand that never was…
Graeme Fowler recalls the 1983-84 tour, in which he was an innocent party, that led him to having his bag searched...
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Features
/ 7 years agoSex and drug-fuelled tour that never was…
ACTION REPLAY As England falter in New Zealand, Richard Edwards gets the lowdown on a controversial tour there 34 years ago...
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Ashes
/ 7 years agoWhere there’s a will, there is a way to winning at the WACA
Derek Pringle looks back at his good, bad and indifferent experiences of one of England’s least favourite venues The WACA –...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoJUSTASK AB, AGGERS’ PLOY MAY F****** DO TRICK, TOO
MARTIN JOHNSON I’d half been expecting it, but when I walked into the golf club bar and the steward said (in...
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Features
/ 7 years agoCan’t bat… Can’t bowl… Can’t field… Are you sure?
ACTION REPL AY Richard Edwards looks back to the 1986-87 series when cynics in the Press were made to eat their...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoPringle column: Gary Ballance must dig deep to escape the Last Chance Saloon
The players who either did or didn't manage to fight their way back into their country's Test team
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Results
/ 7 years agoThree is still the magic number for our selectors
The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events SIMON SWEETMAN Making his Mark: Mark Butcher was the last Englishman to make...
