The election of Donald Trump as the forty – fifth President of the United States has caused, if not global alarm and despondency then at … Read More
Warner Joins the Immortals
Image: David Warner celebrating while playing for Australia. By Zaczac157 [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons David Warner did something genuinely remarkable when … Read More
Come in number three, your time is up
Batting first wicket down is the most demanding job for batsmen in Test cricket. Opening batsmen know what to expect. Often when an innings is … Read More
Up and Down
How common is it for a Test side to lose by an innings after making 400 or more first time around? Well, if you had … Read More
Time to stand up and be counted
Sri Lanka tend not to travel well. That is a generalisation of course, and like most generalisations, is a little harsh, but , on the … Read More
It Could Have Been Worse
“Cook Batting,2013” CC BY-SA 2.0, Image credit to Nic Redhead from Birmingham, UK The subcontinent is always a challenge for touring cricketers. In recent years India … Read More
The Not So Nervous Nineties
When play ended on the first day of the first Test between India and England at Rajkot, the England left hander Moeen Ali was on … Read More
Age shall not wither
In the week that Theresa May became the oldest person to enter 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister since James Callaghan in 1976, the remarkable … Read More
In the Genes
Flying from Singapore to London to watch England’s third Test against Sri Lanka at Lord’s, I found myself watching an episode of Fawlty Towers. It … Read More
Left Arm Over and Out
Where have all the slow left armers gone? It is a question especially pertinent to English cricket. England almost always seem to have a slow … Read More
Cricket at the Crossroads
The recently concluded World T20 was a fantastic celebration of cricket. It displayed the shortest form of the game at its absolute best. It was … Read More
Watching Cricket in Sri Lanka
Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, and nowhere is this more evident than in South Asia. A casual visitor to a … Read More