Features and Columns

This is where you will find all The Cricket Paper’s Features and Columns, opinion and content.

Peter Hayter column – Praise England for having courage to go

8 November 2016 0 comments

England’s cricketers may have left Bangladesh with their tails between their legs but in one important respect at least they […]

Martin Johnson column – How Boycs and Edrich set TMS off on flights of fancy…

8 November 2016 0 comments

In common with many others, I wearily stretched out a hand to locate the bedside radio button last week, only […]

Paul Nixon column – We’ve got to start grinding down the opposition

8 November 2016 0 comments

This series in India is one of England’s biggest in recent times. If they pulled a victory out of the […]

Derek Pringle column – Rousing speeches work but so does laughter

8 November 2016 0 comments

Chandika Hathurusingha is not given to tub thumping but his words to Bangladesh’s cricketers, as they stood poised between victory […]

Dream Team – James Taylor

31 October 2016 0 comments

Alastair Cook I think he is one of, if not the most, talented cricketers in the world right now. He’s […]

Simon Sweetman column – Fagg’s amazing record stands unchallenged

31 October 2016 0 comments

The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events From time to time we might sit back and consider those cricketing […]

Martin Johnson column – Touring used to be fun – ask Gower about it!

31 October 2016 0 comments

One of the great bonuses of playing cricket for England is getting to see all those new, exciting and exotic […]

Derek Pringle column – Aussies on the ball in bid to end Ashes failures

31 October 2016 0 comments

Australia’s government has declared it will not do business with the UK until it has left the European Union but […]

Peter Hayter column – We should have given knackered Cook time to recover

25 October 2016 0 comments

It was absolutely typical of Alastair Cook to want to be with his players for the start of the series […]

Tristan Lavalette column – Simply no winners amid Hughes inquest acrimony

25 October 2016 0 comments

Undoubtedly it has been a miserable start to the Australian cricket season. That is not a reference to Australia’s wretched […]

Marcus North column – I’m backing Australia to bounce back and beat South Africa

25 October 2016 0 comments

We are only a couple of weeks away from the start of Australia’s international summer, with South Africa’s tour shaping […]

Paul Nixon column – Focus on cricket, England, but enjoy Asia, too

25 October 2016 0 comments

The Test series has just started in Bangladesh and it is going to be a long time away from home […]

Everyone will benefit if Celts get invite to the new T20

25 October 2016 0 comments

Tim Wigmore’s weekly look at the game below the Test-playing nations A revolution is coming to English domestic cricket. Many […]

Martin Johnson column – Who needs style if you can play it to the max?

19 October 2016 0 comments

There have been many fast bowlers down the years – Holding, Lillee, Hall – with actions graceful enough to set […]

Derek Pringle column – Culture of game not to blame for this tragedy

18 October 2016 0 comments

The dead cannot speak, but if they could I’m not sure Phillip Hughes would have approved of the rancour that […]

Marcus North column – Spin in India can make the best look foolish

12 October 2016 0 comments

I only played two Test matches on the sub-continent, against India back in 2010. In the first Test at Chandigarh, […]

Peter Hayter column – Duck, that Anderson glare is like Sybil’s umbrella!

12 October 2016 0 comments

James Anderson has rarely been compared to the wife of Basil Fawlty. But I’ve only ever seen the look he […]

Where are they now? Derbyshire – Benson & Hedges Cup finalists 1978

12 October 2016 1 comment

By Neil Fissler Derbyshire shocked the country in reaching the Benson & Hedges Cup final but preparation for their big […]

Martin Johnson column – Old game springs to life just as T20 moves in for kill

4 October 2016 0 comments

Scientists have made a couple of important discoveries in the past week, but exciting though it is to think that […]

Derek Pringle column – Work to be done for Essex to shake off yo-yo tag

4 October 2016 0 comments

The biggest challenge of promotion it seems, for those teams which manage it like my old county Essex, is adapting […]

Marcus North column – Nice work Dizzy… A top coach but also a top man

4 October 2016 0 comments

Yorkshire are on the hunt for a new coach with Jason Gillespie returning to his homeland, having gained massive popularity […]

Paul Nixon column – Batty’s call-up sending out right message

26 September 2016 0 comments

There would have been a few eyebrows raised last Friday when the announcement came through that Gareth Batty had been […]

Martin Johnson column – Let’s face up to real perils of touring…

20 September 2016 0 comments

There seems to have been a fair amount of tut-tutting and eyebrow raising over Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales opting […]

Outgrounds – Surrey

20 September 2016 0 comments

Tree-lined Guildford still able to deliver the festival fun for Surrey Dan Whiting’s journey through cricket’s more unlikely venues takes […]

Derek Pringle column – Selectors can find that wow factor in Div Two

20 September 2016 0 comments

Is the selection of England’s international teams an art or a science? The fudged answer, with that old image of […]

Features and Columns

Peter Hayter column – Praise England for having courage to go

Martin Johnson column – How Boycs and Edrich set TMS off on flights of fancy…

Paul Nixon column – We’ve got to start grinding down the opposition

Derek Pringle column – Rousing speeches work but so does laughter

Dream Team – James Taylor

Simon Sweetman column – Fagg’s amazing record stands unchallenged

Martin Johnson column – Touring used to be fun – ask Gower about it!

Derek Pringle column – Aussies on the ball in bid to end Ashes failures

Peter Hayter column – We should have given knackered Cook time to recover

Tristan Lavalette column – Simply no winners amid Hughes inquest acrimony

Marcus North column – I’m backing Australia to bounce back and beat South Africa

Paul Nixon column – Focus on cricket, England, but enjoy Asia, too

Everyone will benefit if Celts get invite to the new T20

Martin Johnson column – Who needs style if you can play it to the max?

Derek Pringle column – Culture of game not to blame for this tragedy

Marcus North column – Spin in India can make the best look foolish

Peter Hayter column – Duck, that Anderson glare is like Sybil’s umbrella!

Where are they now? Derbyshire – Benson & Hedges Cup finalists 1978

Martin Johnson column – Old game springs to life just as T20 moves in for kill

Derek Pringle column – Work to be done for Essex to shake off yo-yo tag

Marcus North column – Nice work Dizzy… A top coach but also a top man

Paul Nixon column – Batty’s call-up sending out right message

Martin Johnson column – Let’s face up to real perils of touring…

Outgrounds – Surrey

Derek Pringle column – Selectors can find that wow factor in Div Two

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