Why Manchester Mattered
England
What 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…
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…
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