The Lord’s Test
About the Game
There 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…
The Smack of Firm Government
Some CricketersA number of friends – some not even cricketing friends really – alerted me to the passing, a couple of…
Here Comes the Sun
Some Cricket MatchesWe’re now in mid-May, and, if all was right in the world, the West Indians ought to be arriving in…
Dean Park, Bournemouth, 3 May 1970
Some Cricket MatchesWisden arrived this week. Of course one always has to wait a little while for it in Singapore, but wherever…
Vinoo Mankad
Some CricketersThis is a chapter from The Indian Masters, published originally in 2015 The 2004 edition of Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack has…
And Then There Were Twelve
Some CricketersMy most recent post, on the little masters Tendulkar and Gavaskar, and the not so little Kohli, generated such a…
Little and Large
Some CricketersI write this on Sachin Tendulkar’s 47th birthday. He made his Test debut, against Pakistan in Karachi, a month before the…
Who is the Fairest of Them All?
Some CricketersI remember listening to an interview with a batsman – a right-handed batsman, I just can’t remember who it was…
April is the Cruellest Month
About the GameWhatever your interpretation of T S Elliot's famous line, April is a month I normally look forward to. The 2020…
Time for a Break
Some Cricket MatchesI saw an intriguing picture the other day while leafing through a book called Cricket – The Golden Age by Duncan Steer.…
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