A Gong for The Dazzler
Whatever one’s views on Britain’s honours system, nobody is going to begrudge the award of an MBE to the former…

Whatever one’s views on Britain’s honours system, nobody is going to begrudge the award of an MBE to the former…
The cricket world was shocked to learn of the sudden death of the former Australian batsman Dean Jones at the…
The former England batsman Ian Bell has announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the end of this slightly unreal…
What should we make of the first (unsponsored) Test between England and Pakistan at Old Trafford? Of course the first…
The relationship between England and Pakistan as cricketing nations has always been “interesting”. Things started to go wrong almost as…
Is Sam Curran in your best England Test eleven? Well all right, twelve? Er, thirteen? Selection is a strange business…
With the passing of Sir Everton Weekes in early July, cricket lost the last survivor of perhaps its greatest and…
There it is, in the diary: Thursday 25 June, Lord’s. I had two tickets for each of the first four…
Opening batsmen are different; there are no two ways about it. It is obvious why they are different. Opening the…
This is not a history of close fielding; that will have to come later. This is more in the nature…
A number of friends – some not even cricketing friends really – alerted me to the passing, a couple of…
We’re now in mid-May, and, if all was right in the world, the West Indians ought to be arriving in…