Image: By ABC TV (ebay) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Peter O’Toole died on 14 December. At his best he was a major performer on … Read More
Perils of Reading Wisden
The other day I was leafing, as one does, through the pages of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack for 2012 when I came across an article that … Read More
The Great Game
Image: Salim Durani, by Vasim Maner/ Impact Index One of the most intriguing aspects of the next fifty-over World Cup, to be staged in Australia … Read More
Six Degrees Of Separation
The end of the 2013 English county season had an even more poignantly fin de siècle feel than usual for supporters whose memories went back … Read More
Start Me Up
It was impossible not to feel sorry for Simon Kerrigan, the Lancashire slow left arm bowler, as he made his troubled, not to say calamitous, … Read More
You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Muralitharan receiving a guard of honour after passing Walsh’s record, Harare 2004. Image by Ajithjay licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. First, … Read More
What’s in a Name
The Reverend Sydney Smith – the ‘Smith of Smiths’ – said that his idea of Heaven was to be eating foie gras to the sound … Read More
The Honourable Draw
Something happened twice in 2012-13 which had only happened once before in the history of Test cricket. A side batting last and going into the … Read More