• Ajit Wadekar (1941-2018)

    Some Cricketers

    Ajit Wadekar, who has died at the age of 77, was a pugnacious left-handed batsman and fine close fielder, especially…

    A pugnacious left-hander and captain, remembered
  • The Rain it Raineth Every Day

    About the Game

    The weather is peculiarly important in cricket. Of course, it can be critical to any sort of activity that is…

    How weather shapes the game like no other
  • First Among Equals – Part 1

    Some Cricketers

    This article first appeared in my book, The Pakistani Masters. It has been updated following Imran's success in the general…

    Imran Khan, cricketer turned statesman
  • First Among Equals – Part 2

    Some Cricketers

    This article first appeared in my book, The Pakistani Masters. It has been updated following Imran's success in the general…

    The captain who forged a world-beating side
  • First Among Equals – Part 3

    Some Cricketers

    This is the third and final part of an article that first appeared in my book, The Pakistani Masters. It has…

    From the crease to the corridors of power
  • Home and Away

    Some Cricket Matches

    The first Test between Sri Lanka and South Africa at the Galle International Stadium was an interesting but ultimately disappointing…

    Galle, and the widening home-away divide
  • The Mark of Greatness

    Some Cricketers

    Before the English summer of 1968 the cricket authorities relaxed the applicable rules so that each county could hire an…

    Barry Richards, and greatness glimpsed too briefly
  • The Old Fox

    Some Cricketers

    The so-called showpiece one-day Lord's final - in its current incarnation, The Royal Lindon One -Day Cup - has undoubtedly…

    Darren Stevens, defying the years at Lord's
  • Oops, Sorry

    Some Cricket Matches

    England managed to redeem themselves and draw the (absurdly short) Test series against Pakistan with an emphatic innings victory in…

    England redeem themselves in an absurdly short series
  • An Unexpected Triumph for Pakistan

    Some Cricket Matches

    Have England produced, in living memory, a worse performance than that served up to three successive full houses at Lord’s…

    Pakistan humble England before packed houses