Year: 2013

  • 27 December 2013
    Image: By ABC TV (ebay) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Peter O’Toole died on 14 December. At his best he…
  • 15 November 2013
    The other day I was leafing, as one does, through the pages of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 2012 when I…
  • Vasim Maner/ Impact Index

    10 November 2013
    Image: Salim Durani, by Vasim Maner/ Impact Index One of the most intriguing aspects of the next fifty-over World Cup,…
  • 24 October 2013
    The end of the 2013 English county season had an even more poignantly fin de siècle feel than usual for…
  • 6 September 2013
    It was impossible not to feel sorry for Simon Kerrigan, the Lancashire slow left arm bowler, as he made his…
  • [[File:Muralitharan gaurdofhonour harare IMG.JPG|thumb|Muralitharan gaurdofhonour harare IMG]]

    23 August 2013
    Muralitharan receiving a guard of honour after passing Walsh's record, Harare 2004. Image by Ajithjay licensed under the Creative Commons…
  • Ashton Agar bowling

    10 August 2013
    Two events in the last few weeks, the heroics of Ashton Agar at the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge,…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    12 July 2013
    The Reverend Sydney Smith – the ‘Smith of Smiths’ – said that his idea of Heaven was to be eating…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    28 June 2013
    Something happened twice in 2012-13 which had only happened once before in the history of Test cricket. A side batting…