Year: 2017

  • Sri Lanka's troubles deepen against India

    25 December 2017
    The troubles that have afflicted Sri Lankan cricket ever since their home triumph against Australia in 2016 continued in the…
  • One delivery, and the myth-making it invites

    19 December 2017
    On BBC's Test Match Special Michael Vaughan and Graeme Swann separately described the delivery from Mitchell Starc that dismissed James…
  • Nathan Lyon, the finger-spinner Australia rarely produce

    14 December 2017
    Australia don’t normally “do” finger spin. For them it has traditionally been the wrist spinner who has held sway among…
  • The Gabba, and England's familiar Brisbane dread

    30 November 2017
    The Brisbane Cricket Ground (the GABBA) All England supporters fear the worst before a Test match in Brisbane. There is…
  • A tour unravelling before it truly begins

    12 November 2017
    England have had a challenging - yes, we all know what that means - start to their tour of Australia…
  • Is cricket the most literary of all games?

    15 October 2017
    Is cricket the most literary of games? There is obviously no real answer to this question. For all I know…
  • A winning formula, now beyond England's reach

    11 October 2017
    The simple answer is one that was only ever available to one team and is no longer available to them:…
  • The hardest away assignment in the game

    6 October 2017
    It’s not easy. Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Frank Tyson, Jim Laker and Tony Lock. Not a bad attack, most people…
  • Parallels with Richie Benaud's great book

    3 September 2017
    This is the title of the first cricket book I ever read. It is an account by Richie Benaud of…
  • The moments that keep us at the boundary

    19 August 2017
    When play started on the fourth day of the second Test between England and Australia at Edgbaston in 2005, the…