Year: 2014

  • Who really holds the power on the field?

    26 April 2014
    Image: Sri Lankan cricketer Lasith Malinga tosses a cricket ball during a practice session on October 2010 at the Sydney Cricket Ground. By paddynapper…
  • Form is temporary, class permanent - or is it?

    16 March 2014
    “Form is temporary, class is permanent” is an addled old cliche, but like many an addled old cliche, it has…
  • The many small pleasures of a drawn Test

    26 February 2014
    There were all sorts of good things about the drawn second Test between New Zealand and India at Wellington's Basin…
  • English county cricket's debt to overseas talent

    16 February 2014
    English county cricket owes a huge debt to its overseas players. Particularly since the qualification rules were liberalised in 1968,…
  • A roll-call of names, and England's gathering gloom

    24 January 2014
    David Gower, Ian Botham, Allan Lamb, Paul Downton, Brian Lara, Ridley Jacobs, Alastair Cook, Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell. What…
  • Johnson's fire, and England's Melbourne misery

    12 January 2014
    Image: Mitchell Johnson bowling a bouncer to Graeme Swann at the WACA during the 2013-14 Ashes in Australia. By Dan…