One-County Man
The former England batsman Ian Bell has announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the end of this slightly unreal…

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…
Wisden arrived this week. Of course one always has to wait a little while for it in Singapore, but wherever…
This is a chapter from The Indian Masters, published originally in 2015 The 2004 edition of Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack has…