Joe Root Reaches for the Stars
Some Cricketers
They were the Fab Four – Steve Smith, Joe Root, Virat Kohli and Kane Williamson. Incontrovertibly the outstanding batters of…
The Greatest of Our Time
Some CricketersIn a world where all news is bad it still came as a terrible almost bruising shock. For cricket, it…
Out of Africa
Some CricketersA couple of weeks ago I wrote that being a cricket person in Singapore is fine because these days so…
Keep On Keeping On
Some CricketersI wrote about Darren Stevens a few years ago (The Old Fox, July 2018: I think it still holds up).…
One Size Fits – Almost – All
Some CricketersWhen did (male) professional cricketers start to look the same? Of course I don’t mean that literally. Notwithstanding the panoply…
Three of a Kind
Some CricketersJoe Root did something very special at the first Test between India and England at Chennai. He scored a century…
Courage Under Fire: John Edrich
Some CricketersCricket people love debating whether a particular player is great or simply very good. “Great” tends to be over-used but…
The Sly Old Fox: Clarrie Grimmett
Some CricketersI made (at least) two misstatements in my piece on John Reid. The first was that New Zealand’s Tests against…
A Gong for The Dazzler
Some CricketersWhatever one’s views on Britain’s honours system, nobody is going to begrudge the award of an MBE to the former…
A Victorian Legend: Dean Jones, 1961-2020
Some CricketersThe cricket world was shocked to learn of the sudden death of the former Australian batsman Dean Jones at the…
One-County Man
Some CricketersThe former England batsman Ian Bell has announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the end of this slightly unreal…
When the Numbers Don’t Matter
Some CricketersIs Sam Curran in your best England Test eleven? Well all right, twelve? Er, thirteen? Selection is a strange business…
