The so-called showpiece one-day Lord’s final – in its current incarnation, The Royal Lindon One -Day Cup – has undoubtedly lost something of its lustre … 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
Just the Man for a Crisis
If, nine months ago, a random group of informed Cricket followers had been asked to state who would be keeping wicket for Australia in their … Read More
Dirty Work
Ball-tampering is one of cricket’s great taboos, up there with throwing and match-fixing. Any doubt one might have had about this would have been resolved … Read More
The Beginning of the End?
In the space of a few days in February two players on the fringes of the England Test squad, Yorkshire’s leg-spinning all-rounder Adil Rashid, and … Read More
Country Cousins
England’s mildly catastrophic Ashes series is to be followed by a two-match Test series in New Zealand. On the face of it there is something … Read More
My Country Right or Left
Rangana Herath did something remarkable in Sri Lanka’s comfortable win over Bangladesh in the second Test at Mirpur. In taking his 415th Test wicket, in … Read More
Another Ashes Mismatch
It was yet another deeply disappointing Ashes series. It wasn’t just Australia’s crushing margin of victory. The fact is that there were no really interesting … Read More
More Pain for Sri Lanka as India Inflict Whitewash
The troubles that have afflicted Sri Lankan cricket ever since their home triumph against Australia in 2016 continued in the second half of 2017, culminating … Read More
The Ball of the Century
On BBC’s Test Match Special Michael Vaughan and Graeme Swann separately described the delivery from Mitchell Starc that dismissed James Vince in England’s second innings … Read More