The Year of Living Dangerously: International Cricket in 2021
About the Game
For a second year in succession, international cricket had a challenging time. It didn’t win any matches or series. It…
The Honourable Member: Tim Paine, and a Story for Our Times
About the GameWith English cricket still reeling from the shame and embarrassment of the Azeem Rafiq saga, and with actual cricket not…
Today Yorkshire: Tomorrow…?
About the GameIn all of English cricket’s long history, there have been few more chilling, more harrowing, days than 16 November 2021.…
Pragmatism or Betrayal? The West and Pakistan
About the GameIt is impossible for a genuine cricket follower to feel anything other than sadness and dismay at the sudden cancellation…
A Turning Point
About the GameIt looks as though The Hundred might actually work. I haven’t actually watched any of it myself, for the various…
Watching Paint Dry
About the GameIs cricket too boring? It may seem a strange question to ask but it isn’t really. Writing this on the…
Education, Education, Education
About the GameIt’s not difficult to see why New Zealand are in the World Test Championship (WTC) final and England aren’t, on…
Cricket in the Time of COVID: the IPL and The Hundred
About the GameThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) must have been dreaming that people would come to compare its controversial new…
Fever Pitch
About the GameMy wife, Anita, has a theory about life during the wretched pandemic, which has now been with us for roughly…
The Lord’s Test
About the GameThere it is, in the diary: Thursday 25 June, Lord’s. I had two tickets for each of the first four…
April is the Cruellest Month
About the GameWhatever your interpretation of T S Elliot's famous line, April is a month I normally look forward to. The 2020…
Catch Me if You Can
About the GameRecords are made to be broken. That is certainly true of sport. In some ways it is almost the point…
