Let’s all hail the Northants king 13 August 2023 0 comments BY ECB Reporters Network Midweek round-up… Raising the bar: Prithvi Shaw acknowledges his hundred at Northampton before going on to […]
A method to Jack’s madness 13 August 2023 0 comments RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler It is apt that, during a summer in which the bucket hat is once again […]
Fixtures 6 August 2023 0 comments SUNDAY AUGUST 6 One-Day Cup • Somerset v Worcestershire (Taunton, 11am) • Northamptonshire v Sussex (Northampton, 11am) • Kent v […]
He was just a scrawny kid, but you knew he was something special 6 August 2023 0 comments DARREN STEVENS It was always going to finish with Stuart Broad. Those cricketing gods… There I was thinking I’d had […]
YOUNG PRETENDERS TO ONE-DAY KINGS 30 July 2023 0 comments Previews by Josh Stacey and Finn Kirkland DERBYSHIRE FALCONS COACH: Mickey Arthur CAPTAIN: TBC LAST SEASON: 7th in Group B […]
Where stars are born (and swansongs sung!) 30 July 2023 0 comments DARREN STEVENS The return of the One-Day Cup this week stirs some happy memories from last year. Having previously lost […]
When Zak showed the Aussies a thing or two 30 July 2023 0 comments By Richard Edwards We’ve been here before: Steve Smith congratulates Crawley on his stellar innings PICTURES: Alamy In the end […]
From Hinckley home to Headingley haven 23 July 2023 0 comments DARREN STEVENS What luck I’ve had to have played at so many different cricket grounds all over the UK and […]
Harmer leads Essex with all-round class 23 July 2023 0 comments By Martin Smith Essex made heavy weather of scoring the 30 runs required to beat Kent by seven wickets and […]
Pick your best keeper – and that means Foakes 16 July 2023 0 comments DARREN STEVENS Back when I was a teenager playing for Hinckley Town CC in the early 1990s, I had an […]
Yates hits double as Bears eye glory 16 July 2023 0 comments Division One round-up Warwickshire issued a warning to their title rivals by thrashing Kent by an innings and 46 runs […]
Beefy goes electric 16 July 2023 0 comments MANCHESTER ’81 REVISITED Phil Walker recalls the last time England triumphed over Australia at Old Trafford in the Ashes In […]
Young hits century on Nottinghamshire debut to frustrate leaders Surrey 11 July 2023 0 comments Will Young marked his Nottinghamshire debut with an unbeaten century to anchor the visitors’ response on day two of their […]
For a county cricketer, nothing beats Finals Day 9 July 2023 0 comments DARREN STEVENS When I played for Leicestershire in the first-ever T20 Finals Day in 2003, few of us knew what […]
Kent pipped by Eagles in last-round drama 9 July 2023 0 comments Group stage round-up… Results NORTH GROUP JULY 2, DERBY Worcestershire Rapids 222-5 (Santner 64, Haynes 44, Hose 42*, Khan 2-29); […]
Best of the Blast so far 25 June 2023 0 comments Finn Kirkland looks back on this year’s T20 highlights Currie’s catch Brad Currie took one of the greatest catches of […]
Middlesex produce miracle in epic London derby 25 June 2023 0 comments Midweek round-up… Reports from the ECB Reporters Network South Group Stephen Eskinazi and Max Holden emerged as the heroes of […]
Jacks heroics in vain as Middlesex pull off record chase 23 June 2023 0 comments Surrey’s Will Jacks hit five sixes in an over on his way to 96 from 45 balls, but Middlesex replied […]
Spitfires turn on the style then nullify Max power 18 June 2023 0 comments By Ben Kosky Max Holden’s magnificent century spearheaded a valiant Middlesex chase in the Vitality Blast but it was not […]
No disrespect to Kookaburra, but I’m a dukes man! 18 June 2023 0 comments DARREN STEVENS While our very own Dukes cricket ball takes centre stage in the Ashes over the next few weeks, […]
KP show was the shape of things to come 18 June 2023 0 comments Scott Oliver charts the club experiences of another cricketing legend, this time a player who divides opinion like perhaps no […]
Burns: We’d love to go back-to-back 11 June 2023 0 comments As the County Championship started up again on Sunday, captain Rory Burns expressed just what the competition means to Surrey […]
Dhaka to Canterbury 11 June 2023 0 comments By Tawhid Qureshi For someone who had come within a whisker of registering a five-wicket haul on their first-class debut […]
Stalwart Stevo’s as good as ever 11 June 2023 0 comments By Adam Hopkins Evergreen Darren Stevens once again showed that age is but a number after smashing a century for […]
Meet the Aussies 11 June 2023 0 comments A lowdown on Australia’s 17-strong squad for the first and second Tests of the men’s Ashes series, starting this week […]