Cricket at the Crossroads
About the Game
The recently concluded World T20 was a fantastic celebration of cricket. It displayed the shortest form of the game at…
Watching Cricket in Sri Lanka
Sri LankaCricket is the second most popular sport in the world, and nowhere is this more evident than in South Asia.…
Things Have Changed
About the GameImage: "The famous duck: Bradman bowled by Bowes at the MCG, in front of a world record crowd assembled to…
Double Trouble
BattingWhen Ben Stokes made 258 against South Africa at Cape Town in January 2016 he became the second Englishman in…
Carry On Batting
BattingThe Boxing Day Test between South Africa and England at Durban saw the fiftieth instance in Test cricket of a…
The Strange Power of the Follow-On
Some Cricket MatchesNobody could have been surprised by the result of the First Test between Australia and the West Indies at Hobart.…
Crikey O’Reilly!!
BattingCrikey O'Reilly !! Crikey O'Reilly ? Is Crikey O'Reilly the latest Irish cricketer to make his debut for England in…
Curtain Call
Hail and FarewellFor much of the game there was a slightly underwhelming feel about the Royal London One -Day Cup Final between…
Brian Close – Bloody but Unbowed
Some CricketersBrian Close, who died on 14 September at the age of 84, was one of the most remarkable of English…
Farewell My Lovely
The AshesSo there it is. Eighteen days of hectic, sometimes bizarre cricket and the 2015 Investec Ashes is all over. There…
Margin Call
Some Cricket MatchesCan a cricket team" bounce back" from a defeat by a margin of 405 runs? This is the task facing…
A Giant Departs
Hail and FarewellCC BY-SA 4.0 : Image: Kumar Sangakkara batting in his final ODI in Sri Lanka.JPG Where does Kumar…
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