The Sly Old Fox: Clarrie Grimmett
Some Cricketers
I 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…
One-County Man
Some CricketersThe former England batsman Ian Bell has announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the end of this slightly unreal…
Why Manchester Mattered
EnglandWhat should we make of the first (unsponsored) Test between England and Pakistan at Old Trafford? Of course the first…
England v Pakistan – a Magical Mystery Tour
EnglandThe relationship between England and Pakistan as cricketing nations has always been “interesting”. Things started to go wrong almost as…
When the Numbers Don’t Matter
Some CricketersIs Sam Curran in your best England Test eleven? Well all right, twelve? Er, thirteen? Selection is a strange business…
The Triple Effervescence
Hail and FarewellWith the passing of Sir Everton Weekes in early July, cricket lost the last survivor of perhaps its greatest and…
The Lord’s Test
About the GameThere it is, in the diary: Thursday 25 June, Lord’s. I had two tickets for each of the first four…
Opening Up
BattingOpening batsmen are different; there are no two ways about it. It is obvious why they are different. Opening the…
Many a Slip
Some CricketersThis is not a history of close fielding; that will have to come later. This is more in the nature…
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