All posts tagged "The Cricket Paper"
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Leicestershire – 2001 runners up Sunday League and C&G Trophy
By Neil Fissler Neil Burns admits that Leicestershire were disappointed not to have ended the 2001 season with at least one...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – There’d be no fun if Geoffrey’s mum was at No.11
There are one or two instances in which Wisden’s claim to be cricket’s unimpeachable bible fails to stand up to serious...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – Why the ICC masterplan should not spare Ashes
A cautious welcome to the ICC’s proposal to offer those nations currently excluded from the closed shop of Test cricket a...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoUmpires are unsung heroes of our game
Neil Bainton, in his tenth season as a first-class umpire, reveals to Rob Johnstone that the growth of T20 means the...
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International News
/ 10 years agoGillespie stays on but suitors will still circle
YORKSHIRE coach Jason Gillespie ended all speculation, for now at least, by confirming that he will not be leaving Headingley to...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Batters beware: A team can fold any time
It’s been nice to see wickets falling in the County Championship now after batsmen dominated the opening few weeks, but there...
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International News
/ 10 years agoUniverse Boss must let real bat do talking from now on
Derek Pringle is always prepared to listen to players who go off-message but feels that Chris Gayle has gone too far...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Glamorgan – National League winners 2002 & 2004
By Neil Fissler Mike Powell believes that the key strength of Glamorgan at the turn of the millennium was that the...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – It’s poor timing again for Graves & T20 Blast
On the face of it, the eve of the start of this season’s NatWest Blast should have been the ideal time...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – ‘Sorry, you will have to write it in office. I can’t cope’
It’s not difficult to conjure up the scene in the Sri Lankan dressing room just before the start of the Headingley...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – Thank God… it’s not like Nineties anymore
It wasn’t just in the international set-up that there were ups and downs in the 1990s. The Nineties era was almost...
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International News
/ 10 years agoEngland lost throughout the 1990s – because rivals were the all-time greats
Emma John knew nothing but defeat as a fan of 90s England. But were Atherton’s Army really that bad? It can...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – Cozier: A radio star and a top party host to boot
Cricket down here is the poorer for his passing, but for listeners to the celestial version of Test Match Special –...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – North v South… It’s not so cut and dry for me
It is difficult to know whether the North v South one-day series stated for next March is an innovation, a throwback,...
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International News
/ 10 years agoMickey Arthur – How ‘homework-gate’ made me a better coach
Tristan Lavalette talks to Mickey Arthur, who will coach his new charges Pakistan on their England tour his summer It isn’t...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Buckinghamshire – Minor Counties champions 1969
By Neil Fissler Tom Hickling admits that Buckinghamshire winning a record eighth Minor Counties Championship was the highlight of his cricket...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoDurham’s plight a cautionary tale…
Derek Pringle suggests that the county’s request to be bailed out is symptomatic of deeper problems that face the game as...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – Robo-ump will need his smart phone and new app!
Assuming the reports in The Times weren’t part of a late April fool’s gag, if the inventor of Hawk-Eye technology has...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoNortheast sees light through the Key-hole
By Jack Miller THE sight of Rob Key striding to the crease will be sorely missed by the patrons at Canterbury,...
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International News
/ 10 years agoIreland’s growth has been superb but next step awaits
Tim Wigmore looks at how Ireland are trying to change the face of the game in order for growth in the...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Middlesex – 2002 County Championship Division Two runners up
By Neil Fissler Paul Weekes has good cause to remember Middlesex winning promotion for the first time because it was his...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – Beefy and his Brexit call can change cricket
The uncertainty over Brexit is not limited to big business and little Englanders. Much of the country’s sport could be radically...
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Club Cricket
/ 10 years agoRain Card is always a big gamble…
Dan Whiting reveals how the weather forecast is at the centre of one of the game’s greatest, and most long-lasting, conundrums...
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Latest News
/ 10 years agoSanga deserves more applause for acknowledging need to give back…
Alison Mitchell meets former Sri Lanka star Kumar Sangakkara ahead of his country’s three-Test tour to England this summer The applause...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – Keep your lid on and always wear the armour…
England’s travelling support may be a tad thinner than usual this winter, largely thanks to the main course – India –...
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County Championship 2025: Middlesex Season Preview
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Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
