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Some Cricket Matches
I had an email from an old friend this week, asking if we would be able to catch up in…
Cricket in the Time of COVID: the IPL and The Hundred
About the GameThe England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) must have been dreaming that people would come to compare its controversial new…
Fever Pitch
About the GameMy wife, Anita, has a theory about life during the wretched pandemic, which has now been with us for roughly…
Three of a Kind
Some CricketersJoe Root did something very special at the first Test between India and England at Chennai. He scored a century…
Two’s Company
BowlingIt is a truism that cricket is all about partnerships. The record books are full of statistics about batting partnerships.…
Miracle on Vulture Street
Some Cricket MatchesEven the game’s administrators might at last begin to realise what every genuine cricket person has always known: that there…
Courage Under Fire: John Edrich
Some CricketersCricket people love debating whether a particular player is great or simply very good. “Great” tends to be over-used but…
House of Cards
Some Cricket MatchesThere could hardly have been a more appropriate way of bringing the weird and often wonderful international cricket calendar year…
The Sly Old Fox: Clarrie Grimmett
Some CricketersI made (at least) two misstatements in my piece on John Reid. The first was that New Zealand’s Tests against…
The Strong Man
Hail and FarewellJohn Reid, the former New Zealand captain, who died last week at the age of 92, was one of the…
A Gong for The Dazzler
Some CricketersWhatever one’s views on Britain’s honours system, nobody is going to begrudge the award of an MBE to the former…
A Victorian Legend: Dean Jones, 1961-2020
Some CricketersThe cricket world was shocked to learn of the sudden death of the former Australian batsman Dean Jones at the…
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