Even the game’s administrators might at last begin to realise what every genuine cricket person has always known: that there is no sporting contest so … Read More
House of Cards
There could hardly have been a more appropriate way of bringing the weird and often wonderful international cricket calendar year of 2020 to a close … Read More
Here Comes the Sun
We’re now in mid-May, and, if all was right in the world, the West Indians ought to be arriving in England for their three-Test tour. … Read More
Dean Park, Bournemouth, 3 May 1970
Wisden arrived this week. Of course one always has to wait a little while for it in Singapore, but wherever you are the arrival of … Read More
Time for a Break
I saw an intriguing picture the other day while leafing through a book called Cricket – The Golden Age by Duncan Steer. You will see the image … Read More
Mismatch at Mount Maunganui
Should we be surprised that New Zealand are ranked number two in the ICC’s Men’s Test rankings? Hardly. They have won ten successive series at … Read More
Time Machine Cricket
Come on everyone! It’s England v Ireland at Lord’s! And we’re going back to the nineteenth century! It really did seem like that in this … Read More
Kohli’s One Man Show Can’t Prevent England Win
Of course the problem is that Test cricket is so boring. It is seriously doubtful that even the head of marketing at the England and … 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
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