• Left Arm Over and Out

    Bowling

    Where have all the slow left armers gone? It is a question especially pertinent to English cricket. England almost always…

    Where have all the slow left-armers gone?
  • 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…

    The short game dazzles, and poses hard questions
  • Watching Cricket in Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka

    Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, and nowhere is this more evident than in South Asia.…

    The game's second home, seen up close
  • Things Have Changed

    About the Game

    Image: "The famous duck: Bradman bowled by Bowes at the MCG, in front of a world record crowd assembled to…

    How much the game has altered, and how fast
  • Double Trouble

    Batting

    When Ben Stokes made 258 against South Africa at Cape Town in January 2016 he became the second Englishman in…

    Stokes joins a rare club of double-centurions
  • Carry On Batting

    Batting

    The Boxing Day Test between South Africa and England at Durban saw the fiftieth instance in Test cricket of a…

    The fiftieth carried bat, and the art of it
  • The Strange Power of the Follow-On

    Some Cricket Matches

    Nobody could have been surprised by the result of the First Test between Australia and the West Indies at Hobart.…

    Why captains still hesitate over the follow-on
  • Crikey O’Reilly!!

    Batting

    Crikey O'Reilly !! Crikey O'Reilly ? Is Crikey O'Reilly the latest Irish cricketer to make his debut for England in…

    A curious name, and the game's odd corners
  • Curtain Call

    Hail and Farewell

    For much of the game there was a slightly underwhelming feel about the Royal London One -Day Cup Final between…

    An underwhelming final, and a fond farewell
  • Brian Close – Bloody but Unbowed

    Some Cricketers

    Brian Close, who died on 14 September at the age of 84, was one of the most remarkable of English…

    One of the game's bravest and most singular men
  • Farewell My Lovely

    The Ashes

    So there it is. Eighteen days of hectic, sometimes bizarre cricket and the 2015 Investec Ashes is all over. There…

    Eighteen bizarre days, and the urn retained
  • Margin Call

    Some Cricket Matches

    Can a cricket team" bounce back" from a defeat by a margin of 405 runs? This is the task facing…

    Can a side recover from a 405-run thrashing?