• Who’s Crying Now?

    Sri Lanka

    The curious paradox of Test cricket - that the less fitted its practitioners become to meeting the special challenges of…

    A lone innings that defied the odds
  • Be Careful What You Wish For

    About the Game

    There is almost universal regret that the West Indies captain, Jason Holder, will not be playing in the third Test…

    When a captain's absence changes everything
  • Graham McKenzie: The Overworked Thoroughbred

    Some Cricketers

    The list of Australia's top ten Test wicket-takers reads like a concave of the game's immortals.  There are four members…

    Australia's workhorse among the immortals
  • Mike Brearley – A Degree In People

    Some Cricketers

    How important is captaincy in cricket? is there room in an international eleven for a player who is in the…

    Captaincy as its own kind of genius
  • 2018 – A Year to Savour and to Regret

    About the Game

    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Well, let's not exaggerate. But there was some…

    Twelve months of best and worst
  • Just How Bad Are Sri Lanka?

    Sri Lanka

    England secured a highly impressive whitewash when they beat Sri Lanka in the third Test at Colombo. It was a…

    A whitewash raises uncomfortable questions
  • England complete emphatic win in four days

    Sri Lanka

    Rangana Herath's much heralded last Test ended with the great man's desperate and unavailing dive for safety as England secured…

    Herath's farewell, and England's dominant close
  • Cricket in the Eighties

    About the Game

    Remember the 1980s? Reagan, Thatcher and Gorbachev, the Berlin Wall, the Falklands, the Pope and his Popemobile, the assassinations of…

    The game, and the decade, remembered