• Opening Up

    Batting

    Opening batsmen are different; there are no two ways about it. It is obvious why they are different. Opening the…

    The peculiar breed who face the new ball
  • Warner Joins the Immortals

    Batting

    David Warner did something genuinely remarkable when he made a hundred before lunch on the first day of the Sydney…

    An aggressive opener enters rare company
  • The Not So Nervous Nineties

    Batting

    When play ended on the first day of the first Test between India and England at Rajkot, the England left…

    The fear of the nineties, gently questioned
  • Double Trouble

    Batting

    When Ben Stokes made 258 against South Africa at Cape Town in January 2016 he became the second Englishman in…

    Stokes joins a rare club of double-centurions
  • Carry On Batting

    Batting

    The Boxing Day Test between South Africa and England at Durban saw the fiftieth instance in Test cricket of a…

    The fiftieth carried bat, and the art of it
  • Crikey O’Reilly!!

    Batting

    Crikey O'Reilly !! Crikey O'Reilly ? Is Crikey O'Reilly the latest Irish cricketer to make his debut for England in…

    A curious name, and the game's odd corners
  • Be Prepared

    Batting

    Batting is a very technical thing, far more technically demanding than most sporting endeavors. It is physically demanding and the…

    Batting, and the making of a technique
  • The Style is the Man

    Batting

    Fawad Alam batting for Pakistan during a 50-over warm-up match against Somerset at the County Ground, Taunton. Image by Harrias…

    Fawad Alam, and how a batsman reveals himself
  • Sixes and Sevens

    Batting

    There were all sorts of good things about the drawn second Test between New Zealand and India at Wellington's Basin…

    The many small pleasures of a drawn Test
  • Eleven

    Batting

    Two events in the last few weeks, the heroics of Ashton Agar at the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge,…

    The tail-enders who briefly become heroes