Features and Columns

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

Pringle column: Late to the party but England’s aging duo still a threat

2 January 2018 0 comments

Derek Pringle on Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson’s MCG showing, and Jackson Bird embodying lack of Aussie seamer depth

Cook’s knock shows up Johnson and Pietersen’s comments and prove his steel

2 January 2018 0 comments

Background sniggering would never deter Cook from showing his mettle, writes Peter Hayter

Hayter column: Cook needed a big knock but his England future is saved by precedent

27 December 2017 0 comments

Swann, Vaughan have their say on Alastair Cook’s Ashes form

Pringle column: Change coming if England suffer Ashes whitewash?

27 December 2017 0 comments

Derek Pringle remembers the inquiry that made 19 recommendations to the ECB following the last Ashes series

‘It was torture’ Paul Collingwood sums up England’s WACA experience in 2006-07 Ashes

24 December 2017 0 comments

In our Action Replay feature, Sam Pilger looks back at England’s unassailable position in the series going from bad to worse thanks to Warne

Johnson column: For Trevor Bayliss, it’s all about taking the positives

24 December 2017 0 comments

“If I were Bayliss, I wouldn’t so much be taking the positives as taking the tablets”

Nixon column: The T10 format can help expand the game

21 December 2017 0 comments

Paul Nixon gives his take on the new league that featured Eoin Morgan, Alex Hales and Liam Plunkett and a host of other international stars

North column: Credit Bayliss for calling up Dawid Malan

21 December 2017 0 comments

After turning in a ton worthy of Test cricket, Marcus North congratulates Trevor Bayliss for spotting the right attributes in the Middlesex batsman

Search goes on to find England’s next rocket bowler

21 December 2017 0 comments

Planet Cricket: England’s problem with pace is developing into a long-standing problem – is the domestic game to blame?

Hayter column: Strauss sent out the wrong message to England players

19 December 2017 0 comments

Peter Hayter on the culture among England’s players and how Strauss has, to some extent, enabled their antics

England’s quickest – Peter Hayter on facing a delivery from paceman Devon Malcolm

19 December 2017 0 comments

Remember when Malcolm uprooted Steve Waugh’s off stump? Of course you do, our man on his experience facing the England bowler

The WACA – Ugly? Yes, but the Perth ground will be sorely missed

19 December 2017 0 comments

Chris Stocks gives his take on the old concrete crusted Perth ground

Pringle column: It was the right call… but DRS has issues to address

19 December 2017 0 comments

Protocol, protocol, protocol… Derek Pringle on why DRS can be frustrating

Hayter column: Self-help was key to Bill Athey and 86/87 party set

13 December 2017 0 comments

Peter Hayter on the lack of electronic analytics allowing memories to play their part on the 1986/87 Ashes tour

Foakes waits in the wings ready should James Vince falter in Perth Test

13 December 2017 0 comments

A former England captain offers a solution to England’s no.3 woes should Vince replicate his shocking form at Adelaide in the third Test

Is Jonny Bairstow being wasted at no.7?

13 December 2017 0 comments

By Tim Wigmore The denouement was strangely apt. Jonny Bairstow – needing to swing for the hills because, well, there […]

Pringle column: Our last chance is to put the heat on Nathan Lyon

13 December 2017 0 comments

Let’s not panic, but at 2-0 down after two, Derek Pringle says it’s time to attack Nathan Lyon

Marcus North Column: Aussie selections have pressed panic buttons

29 November 2017 0 comments

Two days into this Ashes series, and there is still a lot of talk about the Australian selections that saw Tim Paine drafted in to take the gloves and Matt Renshaw dropped from the opener’s spot

Peter Hayter Column: Well done BT… But remember less can be more (Richie knew value of silence)

29 November 2017 1 comment

No one thought to hand over a cap to BT Sport’s Matt Smith in a moving ceremony prior to the start of the 2017-18 Ashes on Wednesday night (Thursday morning in Australia) at the Gabba