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HANDING OUT THE GONGS

Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler Tap. Tap. Can you hear me at the back? Thumbs up? Super. Good evening, ladies […]

A CHAMPION OF A SEASON

BECAUSE… COUNTY CRICKET MATTERS ANNIE CHAVE In the ECB laboratory, the domestic game is laid bare, its schedule trailing across […]

HANDING OUT THE GONGS

Richard Clarke AKA The Grumblerr Tears of joy: Gloucestershire president Syd Lawrence gets his hands on the Blast trophy PICTURES: […]

Ben Gardner column: The problem of the stuffed suitcase

That was the quarter-finals week that was. It wasn’t quite a classic, with only one game threatening thriller status, but still the first round of T20 Blast knockouts have justified their status as hipster’s choice for the best entertainment that the English summer has to offer.

Derek Pringle column: DRS protocols over lbw need to change now

Master and apprentice is a phrase you often hear when Joe Root and Harry Brook are at the crease together. Yet the roles could so readily have been reversed in the Second Test against Sri Lanka at Lord’s, after the Decision Review System had both men lbw to balls clipping leg-stump.

Blink before you miss it: Finals Day looms for lucky eight

There aren’t many bigger days in the county calendar than the T20 quarter-finals, which take place later this week. I say quarter-finals, but really it feels like a semi because the prize is Finals Day at Edgbaston, to my reckoning still the biggest day of the domestic summer.