This article first appeared in my book, The Pakistani Masters. It has been updated following Imran’s success in the general election in July 2018, which … Read More
First Among Equals – Part 2
This article first appeared in my book, The Pakistani Masters. It has been updated following Imran’s success in the general election in July 2018, which … Read More
First Among Equals – Part 3
This is the third and final part of an article that first appeared in my book, The Pakistani Masters. It has been updated following Imran’s success … Read More
Home and Away
The first Test between Sri Lanka and South Africa at the Galle International Stadium was an interesting but ultimately disappointing affair. All over by tea … Read More
The Mark of Greatness
Before the English summer of 1968 the cricket authorities relaxed the applicable rules so that each county could hire an overseas player without having to … Read More
The Old Fox
The so-called showpiece one-day Lord’s final – in its current incarnation, The Royal Lindon One -Day Cup – has undoubtedly lost something of its lustre … Read More
Oops, Sorry
England managed to redeem themselves and draw the (absurdly short) Test series against Pakistan with an emphatic innings victory in the second Test at Headingley. … Read More
An Unexpected Triumph for Pakistan
Have England produced, in living memory, a worse performance than that served up to three successive full houses at Lord’s in the first Test against … Read More
In the Beginning
Ireland’s men made a remarkably promising start to their Test careers (the women are ahead of them) despite losing to Pakistan by five wickets at … Read More
Just the Man for a Crisis
If, nine months ago, a random group of informed Cricket followers had been asked to state who would be keeping wicket for Australia in their … Read More
Dirty Work
Ball-tampering is one of cricket’s great taboos, up there with throwing and match-fixing. Any doubt one might have had about this would have been resolved … Read More
The Beginning of the End?
In the space of a few days in February two players on the fringes of the England Test squad, Yorkshire’s leg-spinning all-rounder Adil Rashid, and … Read More