How common is it for a Test side to lose by an innings after making 400 or more first time around? Well, if you had … Read More
Time to stand up and be counted
Sri Lanka tend not to travel well. That is a generalisation of course, and like most generalisations, is a little harsh, but , on the … Read More
It Could Have Been Worse
“Cook Batting,2013” CC BY-SA 2.0, Image credit to Nic Redhead from Birmingham, UK The subcontinent is always a challenge for touring cricketers. In recent years India … Read More
The Not So Nervous Nineties
When play ended on the first day of the first Test between India and England at Rajkot, the England left hander Moeen Ali was on … Read More
Age shall not wither
In the week that Theresa May became the oldest person to enter 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister since James Callaghan in 1976, the remarkable … Read More
In the Genes
Flying from Singapore to London to watch England’s third Test against Sri Lanka at Lord’s, I found myself watching an episode of Fawlty Towers. It … Read More
Left Arm Over and Out
Where have all the slow left armers gone? It is a question especially pertinent to English cricket. England almost always seem to have a slow … Read More
Cricket at the Crossroads
The recently concluded World T20 was a fantastic celebration of cricket. It displayed the shortest form of the game at its absolute best. It was … Read More
Watching Cricket in Sri Lanka
Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, and nowhere is this more evident than in South Asia. A casual visitor to a … Read More
Things Have Changed
Image: “The famous duck: Bradman bowled by Bowes at the MCG, in front of a world record crowd assembled to see Bradman defeat Bodyline” Newspaper … Read More
Double Trouble
When Ben Stokes made 258 against South Africa at Cape Town in January 2016 he became the second Englishman in three months to have made … Read More
Carry On Batting
The Boxing Day Test between South Africa and England at Durban saw the fiftieth instance in Test cricket of a batsman carrying his bat through … Read More