All posts tagged "The Cricket Paper"
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Bowling the Yanks over with a cricket metaphor
Once a byword for fairness and moral certitude, cricket was used to illustrate the exact opposite by Eddie Jones, England’s rugby...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Freddie’s dream becomes a living nightmare
When Andrew Flintoff was at the peak of his powers, thrilling England fans with his rumbustious presence and match-changing exploits with...
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News
/ 9 years agoMicrophone gimmicks are sending out wrong signals
Joshua Peck suggests player and stump mics cause more controversy than they are worth Kevin Pietersen was recently fined 5,000 Australian...
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International News
/ 9 years agoHow Kohli & Co put blind cricket into mainstream
Alison Mitchell is bowled over by the T20 World Cup for the Blind which attracted 25,000 to the India-England match England’s...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Getting to the Root of English captaincy pitfalls
Twenty reasons why the ECB chose Joe Root as their new England captain. 1. He’s a jolly good batsman. 2. He’s...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – We can’t leave all players to learn on own…
Coaching has changed in the past decade or so with more onus being on players to work things out for themselves,...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Not many tweaks needed to keep Tests relevant
One of the slogans coming from England’s new captain and his deputy, is their mission to make people “fall in love...
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International News
/ 9 years agoWill Hales join the list of England’s lost talents?
Joshua Peck wonders whether a record-breaking batsman may have allowed rivals to usurp his place in the international side Andrew Flintoff,...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Capturing the soul of cricket and its legends
Has there been a game or sport more celebrated by art than cricket? From the 17th century country house artists painting...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoCounty Archives – Surrey 1952
The year when Bernie really shone among the stars… Surrey had an army of leading lights in their 1952 title winning...
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International News
/ 9 years agoTaibu plotting Zimbabwe revival… from Merseyside
Jamie Bowman locates a former Test captain who has chosen an unlikely base to start an overhaul of his country’s cricket...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoVirat Kohli on the cover of 2017 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack
Wisden editor Lawrence Booth said: “The cover of Wisden 2017 shows him playing a reverse sweep – the kind of unorthodoxy...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoSimon Sweetman column – At last, I could stop feeling like Mr Creosote…
The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events After two ODIs between England and India had produced 1,453 runs (and 42...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – If this is supposed to be fun, then I’m Napoleon
You can scarcely go to a rugby match these days without watching some disorientated participant being ordered off for a head...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoRogers is back at Taunton to help good times roll
By Jeremy Blackmore Chris Rogers, the man who led Somerset to within four points of a maiden County Championship title last...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Stop run fests by bringing back the bouncer
England’s recent one-day series in India produced three high scoring and reasonably close games, of which Eoin Morgan’s team lost two...
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International News
/ 9 years agoHeyhoe Flint, the pioneer with a twinkle in her eye…
Alison Mitchell offers a personal memory of one of cricket’s most important and respected figures who died earlier this month Baroness...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoCounty Archives: Somerset 2001
When Cox's upstarts laid down the gauntlet to the big guns
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoMonty on right wavelength for a big comeback
Monty Panesar is hoping to turn it around after broadening his horizons Down Under...
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Featured
/ 9 years agoProud ‘Englishmen’ or just cricketing mercenaries… Who gets your vote?
The adopted Englishman is a curious beast, but who would be your top ‘outsider’ to wear the Three Lions? Derek Pringle...
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International News
/ 9 years agoHow English missionaries are honing their skills with the top Associates
Tim Wigmore finds a parallel between soccer coaches in the 20th century and their modern day cricketing brethren In Mister, Rory...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Skippers felt the force of the chop in the 80s
The seeming prevarication over the future of Alastair Cook as England captain seems to be based on achieving the right level...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoClub Spotlight – Burnley
Even the Burnley Express can’t match Griffith’s haul Jimmy Booker heads into Lancashire and locates the hometown club of an England...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoCounty Archives – Nottinghamshire 1981
Rice’s relentless charges proved too strong for all-comers Paul Edwards casts his county net back 36 years to look at the...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Sorry, but there’ll be no Vardy style tale in cricket
With the 2017 season not too far away, counties will be looking at any late big signings they can make, or...
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