All posts tagged "Ian Botham"
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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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Columnists
/ 4 years agoVirat Kohli is a friend for life | Peter Hayter
Donald Trump is not renowned for his love of cricket, but the great manipulator has always known how to play a...
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Derek Pringle
/ 4 years agoALL OF US SHOULD BE RAISING OUR GLASSES TO ‘HENDO’
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle MIKE Hendrick had the most wonderful, rhythmic bowling action, but his hatred of conceding runs probably cost him...
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Features
/ 4 years agoDIFFERENT SIZED BALL BUT SAME PASSION
James Wallace looks at times when football and cricket collide Cross code: Ian Botham turned out as a pro footballer for...
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Columnists
/ 4 years agoIt was all in a day’s work for Beefy | Peter Hayter
For those who lived through the extraordinary, nation-changing cricketing events of the summer of 1981 commonly known as Botham’s Ashes, the...
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Guest Blogs
/ 4 years agoThe Most Controversial and Exciting Cricketers of All Time
Cricket for many people is like a religion, with over 2.5 billion people tuning in to watch their favourite team. This...
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Features
/ 5 years agoBBC MUST RECOVER LOST TIME
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle It was a hum rather than a fanfare but the BBC’s return to broadcasting live cricket, for the...
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Featured
/ 5 years ago‘SWEDE’ MARTIN IS A MIDDLESEX STAR
ADAM COLLINS @collinsadam BIG COMPARISON: MARTIN ANDERSSON BOWLING FOR MIDDLESEX BUT HIS BATTING HAS BEEN COMPARED BY STUART LAW TO AUSTRALIA...
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Featured
/ 5 years agoBEEFY’S RIGHT, STOKES IS BEST WE’VE EVER HAD
PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket A crack of Ben Stokes’ bat on ball; a nanosecond of hush, an eruption of noise from the...
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Featured
/ 5 years agoLEGEND BOB DESERVES THE HONOUR
Derek Pringle says the Bob Willis Trophy is a fi tting tribute to his old team-mate and colleague PRINGLE’S VIEWPOINT The...
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Ashes
/ 6 years agoAussies must now regroup and avoid repeat of ‘81 series
By Richard Edwards Smashing: Botham’s famous knock turned the tide IT has taken the Aussies a generation to get over the...
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Ashes
/ 6 years agoStokes’ heroics give England fans a new epic to remember
By Chris Stocks Star man BEN STOKES – England: Who else? The skill the allrounder showed when batting with the tail...
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Features
/ 6 years agoBOTHAM, ATHERTON AND HUTTON – NOW STOKES JOINS ELITE LIST!
Roderick Easdale trawls through the archives to take a look back at some great English innings to rival Ben Stokes’ 2019...
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News
/ 6 years agoEllison had the Edge to become an Ashes hero
MENTION the words ‘Edgbaston’ and ‘The Ashes’ and certain images spring to mind. Foremost among them, a marauding moustache-wearing swing bowler...
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ICC Cricket World Cup
/ 6 years agoWORLD CUP SUCCESS IS JUST SO TYPICALLY ENGLISH
Derek Pringle heralds the proud history of the Bunbury Festival which, under guru David English, helped produce no fewer than nine...
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ICC Cricket World Cup
/ 6 years ago‘IN 1992, WE JUST LOST FORM… BUT THIS LOT CAN GET IT DONE’
Derek Pringle looks back on England’s last World Cup semi-final 27 years ago and believes the current crop can go one...
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ICC Cricket World Cup
/ 7 years agoRICHARDS HAD TO KNEEL WHEN COLLIS WAS KING
Garfield Robinson recalls an astonishing World Cup final day at Lord’s when the junior partner overshadowed the greatest attacking batsman of...
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ICC Cricket World Cup
/ 7 years agoThe day Rhodes took a dive to redefine fielding
Richard Edwards recalls one spectacular incident at the 1992 World Cup that reminded everyone of the value of how good work...
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Featured
/ 7 years agoFEATURE: Joe Root on the World Cup, Ashes and selectors getting out to watch county cricket
Joe Root is a big fan of the new England kit
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Featured
/ 7 years agoIT SEEMS OLD HABITS DO STILL DIE HARD WITH ECB
MARTIN JOHNSON I don’t know this for sure, but I’ve always imagined that being accepted for the job of press officer...
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Featured
/ 7 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
/ 7 years agoCan the chef stay on boil after being a test Star for so lonG?
Derek Pringle discusses the issues that former England captain Alastair Cook will have to confront as he returns to the county...
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Features
/ 7 years agoClose: forever one of the game’s great mavericks
Derek Pringle looks at the colourful life of the great Brian Close, who was honoured recently with the naming of ‘Brian...
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Features
/ 7 years agoshowing tests on terreestrial tv would mean too great a loss in income say ECb
Chris Stocks finds the ECB believes they have the balance right between income and reach as England star Graeme Swann laments...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 7 years agoHow ‘geek’ Jones puts Broad & Co in fast lane
By Paul Eddison Endorsement: Stuart Broad is grateful for Jones’ advice Fast and studious: Steffan Jones in his playing days for...
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