When the Numbers Don’t Matter
Some Cricketers
Is Sam Curran in your best England Test eleven? Well all right, twelve? Er, thirteen? Selection is a strange business…
Many a Slip
Some CricketersThis is not a history of close fielding; that will have to come later. This is more in the nature…
The Smack of Firm Government
Some CricketersA number of friends – some not even cricketing friends really – alerted me to the passing, a couple of…
Vinoo Mankad
Some CricketersThis is a chapter from The Indian Masters, published originally in 2015 The 2004 edition of Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack has…
And Then There Were Twelve
Some CricketersMy most recent post, on the little masters Tendulkar and Gavaskar, and the not so little Kohli, generated such a…
Little and Large
Some CricketersI write this on Sachin Tendulkar’s 47th birthday. He made his Test debut, against Pakistan in Karachi, a month before the…
Who is the Fairest of Them All?
Some CricketersI remember listening to an interview with a batsman – a right-handed batsman, I just can’t remember who it was…
Clash of the Titans
Some CricketersWho was the greater bowler, Muttiah Muralitharan or Shane Warne? Such questions are almost impossible to answer. This is obviously…
Abdul Qadir
Some CricketersThe great Pakistan leg-spinner Abdul Qadir died last week. This article about him first appeared in my book, The Pakistani…
The Apotheosis of Steven Smith
Some CricketersWhatever happens in the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston - England are slightly ahead on points, as it were, as…
Having Lunch With Don Bradman
Some CricketersThere are many worse places than Singapore to be a cricket person. You can play; there are some local leagues.…
Tom Graveney – Style and Substance
Some Cricketers"Tom Graveney was the James Vince of his day." Discuss. Ridiculous, I hear you cry. Graveney was a master batsman,…
