All posts tagged "The Cricket Paper"
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News
/ 10 years agoEngland basking in Knight’s new dawn
Adam Collins speaks to the England captain about a brilliant summer and a challenging future Six starts, six wins. Automatic qualification...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – Milton’s paradise not lost, thanks to snicko
The year is 2058 – the 50th anniversary of DRS in Test cricket – and the tannoy crackles into life at...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPeter Hayter column – Cheating Amir will be judged in house of Lord’s
The people of Taunton have spoken. The people of Hove will get their chance in the coming days. But the first...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoPaul Nixon column – No score too large for Gayle and Co to chase
I am currently in Guyana preparing for the top of the table clash in the Caribbean Premier League. My Jamaica Tallawahs...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – Squabbles, insults, threats… Oh yes, it’s Pakistan!
England and Pakistan will not be playing for anything tangible this summer, like the Ashes, but given that their cricketing history...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoMartin Johnson column – I’ll use my factor 60, so please don’t zap me, Bruce!
It’s easily done. You’re just settling down for a cosy afternoon in front of the cricket when you accidentally sit down...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoICP Young Gun – Philip Salt
‘So in awe of Sobers, I took his takeaway’ Philip Salt can be forgiven a moment of embarrassment after realising he...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoRoom 101 – John Blain
Odd socks I can’t stand it when people wear odd socks, it drives me mad. It’s an OCD thing of mine,...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoDerek Pringle column – There is pace… And there is raw pace like Tymal Mills
There is pace that hurries batsmen and then there is real pace that threatens their well-being, and Tymal Mills possesses the...
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Features and Columns
/ 10 years agoICP Young Gun – Kamau Leverock
‘My 20st uncle made a splash, now I want it to be my turn’ If you do not recognise Dwayne Leverock...
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International News
/ 10 years agoThere is more to Gayle than the bling and the bravado
Alison Mitchell meets the Universe Boss and discovers a man still trying to understand why he has been engulfed in controversy...
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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,...
County Championships
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County Championships
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Young players to watch in the 2025 County Championship season
