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
The Strange Power of the Follow-On
Nobody could have been surprised by the result of the First Test between Australia and the West Indies at Hobart. A thumping victory for the … Read More
Crikey O’Reilly!!
Crikey O’Reilly !! Crikey O’Reilly ? Is Crikey O’Reilly the latest Irish cricketer to make his debut for England in an otherwise forgettable one – … Read More
Curtain Call
For much of the game there was a slightly underwhelming feel about the Royal London One -Day Cup Final between Gloucestershire and Surrey at Lord’s … Read More
Brian Close – Bloody but Unbowed
Brian Close, who died on 14 September at the age of 84, was one of the most remarkable of English cricketers. He was England’s youngest … Read More
Farewell My Lovely
So there it is. Eighteen days of hectic, sometimes bizarre cricket and the 2015 Investec Ashes is all over. There is plenty for England to … Read More
Margin Call
Can a cricket team” bounce back” from a defeat by a margin of 405 runs? This is the task facing England as they prepare for … Read More
A Giant Departs
CC BY-SA 4.0 : Image: Kumar Sangakkara batting in his final ODI in Sri Lanka.JPG Where does Kumar Sangakkara stand in the pantheon … Read More
Kept in Reserve
Image: By Aravind Sivaraj (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons New Zealand had an interesting selection quandary in the second Test against … Read More
All Square
England v New Zealand in a Test match at Lord’s, May 2004. Image by Peter Meade licensed under CC BY 2.0 As the rain poured down on … Read More
A Test of Character
If there is a better Test match this Ashes summer than the first Test between England and New Zealand at Lord’s then cricket supporters are … Read More