Features and Columns

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

Can Alastair Cook enjoy a late flowering like his mentor Graham Gooch?

1 May 2018 0 comments

With a weakness against left-arm seamers to address, Derek Pringle looks at whether Graham Gooch can find the answers for Cook

Pringle column: Why two divisions have been toxic for the County Championship

24 April 2018 0 comments

Derek Pringle disects a system he describes as ‘flawed’

Planet Cricket – Zimbabwe are being zapped by hapless bosses

21 April 2018 0 comments

Zimbabwe risk regressing in the same style as Kenya by a devisive board

Cleaning up in Spring can decide where the Championship trophy lands

18 April 2018 0 comments

Derek Pringle discusses how the usual seam-friendly conditions of April and May can set bowlers up for the rest of the campaign

Pringle column: IPL creating a county versus country conflict

17 April 2018 0 comments

By Derek Pringle The recent revelation that the England and Wales Cricket Board has been pocketing fees from the Indian […]

Joe Root is short of options if a revamp to England’s Test side is the way to go

11 April 2018 0 comments

Alison Mitchell writes why England’s pressing matters in the batting department have some obstacles

It’s time Moeen Ali’s beard was feared once again

4 April 2018 0 comments

Peter Hayter writes about Moeen Ali’s mentality compared to Nathan Lyon

Pringle column: Did a certain Australian just use the c-word?

4 April 2018 0 comments

Derek Pringle looks at the week Cricket Australia endured and a past episode of ball-tampering in this country

The sex and drug-fuelled tour to New Zealand that never was…

4 April 2018 0 comments

Graeme Fowler recalls the 1983-84 tour, in which he was an innocent party, that led him to having his bag searched at Heathrow for the next ten years

Johnson column: Sandpapergate was so hysterical it’s a wonder the EU hasn’t expelled Australian diplomats

3 April 2018 0 comments

Martin Johnson recalls a couple of instances of ball-tampering on English soil

Planet Cricket: Kiwi model worth its weight in gold

22 March 2018 0 comments

By Tim Wigmore A few years ago, it was faddish in UK politics to obsess over the Swedish model. Politicians […]

Westbury column: How T20 reflects lure of private sector

22 March 2018 0 comments

By Isabelle Westbury When David Storey, arguably the greatest novelist to have played professional sport (granted a narrow genre), wrote […]

Johnson column: Marshall and co dished out a 5-1 thumping….and that was just the number of skippers

22 March 2018 0 comments

By Martin Johnson It’s not unknown for a team to change captains in the course of a five-Test series, but […]

Pringle column: Are steady attendance rates at England Tests pushing prices towards a fault line?

21 March 2018 0 comments

England invariably sell out home Tests, but is there a breaking point when it comes to prices?

Hayter column: Whitaker & Co picked too many nearly men for England

20 March 2018 0 comments

Hard work that at times beared no fruit – Peter Hayter on the role of outgoing national selector James Whitaker

Nixon column: What Moeen Ali needs to aim to improve to stave off the threat of Jack Leach

15 March 2018 0 comments

By Paul Nixon It’s been great to see Jack Leach performing so well for the England Lions in the West […]

Hayter column: Remembering Mark Ramprakash’s Test career 20 years on from his best innings

15 March 2018 0 comments

Peter Hayter recalls the knock that was supposed to lock in Ramps as a Test batsman for England – but didn’t

Pringle column: Money is at the root of all evil, it seems

14 March 2018 0 comments

After Andy Nash’s resignation from the ECB board, Derek Pringle looks at the skewed treatment of counties by ECB compensation packages

Manthorp column: Unleash the verbal against an Australian or South African and you should expect to get burnt

8 March 2018 0 comments

Neil Manthorp has his say on the Warner-de Kock controversy and gauges Ottis Gibson’s viewpoint

Pringle column: Extra gear for Woakes has turned him into one of the best

7 March 2018 0 comments

Derek Pringle says batsmen are being stopped in their tracks from getting on the front foot against Woakes new-found pace

North column: Morne Morkel always made life uncomfortable for a batsman

6 March 2018 0 comments

Marcus North on the career of old adversary Morne Morkel, who announced he will retire from international cricket next month

Planet Cricket: Cutting down on T20s to clear up frenzied schedule would be catastrophic

28 February 2018 0 comments

TIm Wigmore reflects on comments made by Trevor Bayliss last week and how emerging nations use T20 as the bedrock of their development

Hayter column: Amid the doom and gloom, let’s savour the feeling of the new season

27 February 2018 0 comments

Peter Hayter points towards comments made by Yorkshire director of cricket Martyn Moxon about player contracts and prospects of a conference-format County Championship

Pringle column: It’s time counties stood up to players

27 February 2018 0 comments

Derek Pringle writes why the County Championship is in danger when players like Rashid and Hales turn their back on Test selection for England

Nixon column: Learning curve in Second XI vital to our game

21 February 2018 0 comments

Young or old, Paul Nixon says game time in Second XI matches can make the world of difference to a player’s form

Features and Columns

Can Alastair Cook enjoy a late flowering like his mentor Graham Gooch?

Pringle column: Why two divisions have been toxic for the County Championship

Planet Cricket – Zimbabwe are being zapped by hapless bosses

Cleaning up in Spring can decide where the Championship trophy lands

Pringle column: IPL creating a county versus country conflict

Joe Root is short of options if a revamp to England’s Test side is the way to go

It’s time Moeen Ali’s beard was feared once again

Pringle column: Did a certain Australian just use the c-word?

The sex and drug-fuelled tour to New Zealand that never was…

Johnson column: Sandpapergate was so hysterical it’s a wonder the EU hasn’t expelled Australian diplomats

Planet Cricket: Kiwi model worth its weight in gold

Westbury column: How T20 reflects lure of private sector

Johnson column: Marshall and co dished out a 5-1 thumping….and that was just the number of skippers

Pringle column: Are steady attendance rates at England Tests pushing prices towards a fault line?

Hayter column: Whitaker & Co picked too many nearly men for England

Nixon column: What Moeen Ali needs to aim to improve to stave off the threat of Jack Leach

Hayter column: Remembering Mark Ramprakash’s Test career 20 years on from his best innings

Pringle column: Money is at the root of all evil, it seems

Manthorp column: Unleash the verbal against an Australian or South African and you should expect to get burnt

Pringle column: Extra gear for Woakes has turned him into one of the best

North column: Morne Morkel always made life uncomfortable for a batsman

Planet Cricket: Cutting down on T20s to clear up frenzied schedule would be catastrophic

Hayter column: Amid the doom and gloom, let’s savour the feeling of the new season

Pringle column: It’s time counties stood up to players

Nixon column: Learning curve in Second XI vital to our game

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