Derek Pringle

This is where you will find all The Cricket Paper’s Derek Pringle columns, opinion and content.

Bowlers need the art of surprise to fight back

15 September 2024 0 comments

By Derek Pringle It was Ricky Ponting who spotted it on commentary and only then after a battery of replays. […]

Derek Pringle: Small is beautiful for England opener Ben Duckett

8 September 2024 0 comments

At 5ft 6in Ben Duckett is in the small camp. But small batters have advantages even if looking up to everyone else on a cricket field isn’t one of them…

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

1 September 2024 0 comments

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.

POPEWATCH: ANALYSING THE SKIPPER

25 August 2024 0 comments

Derek Pringle @derekpringle Mike Brearley wrote a whole book on the art of it while Richie Benaud distilled it down […]

Derek Pringle: Fearsome Mark Wood embodies the need for speed

4 August 2024 0 comments

Derek Pringle relished watching England paceman Mark Wood dismantle the West Indies batting during the third Test at Edgbaston.

Harry Brook has the right stuff to lead for England

28 July 2024 0 comments

There would have been sniggers as well as knowing nods over Harry Brook’s credentials to be an England captain when the notion was aired last week.

England analysis and comment: The need for speed

21 July 2024 0 comments

Derek Pringle explains that out-and-out pace is just one part of the equation.

Slippery Atkinson barges into the future

14 July 2024 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE It is impossible not to get carried away with Gus Atkinson’s 12-wicket haul to kick off the international […]

JIMMY SWANSONG SHINES LIGHT ON FRAGILE FUTURE

7 July 2024 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Just in case anyone thought the upcoming Lord’s Test against the West Indies was a sentimental farewell […]

England’s rigid approach strangled their chances of success

30 June 2024 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle England’s ignominious exit from the T20 World Cup had been signposted for a while. From the moment […]

TO YORK OR NOT TO YORK

23 June 2024 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE Deciding what ball to go to at the death is a thorny issue @derekpringle As the size of […]

Windies rally to a different tune

16 June 2024 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Great unifiers in team sports can be worth their weight in trophies, which is why supporters of […]

Cricket in United States remains a sticky wicket

9 June 2024 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Watching Ireland’s batsmen hop about against India’s pace bowlers the other night, bottom hand off bat and […]

New world order puts the individual first

2 June 2024 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Cricket teams that win big tournaments nearly always cite a special togetherness which contributed to their victory; […]

Buttler’s England have firepower to win again

26 May 2024 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle England have just two more T20 matches against Pakistan, following Saturday’s pipe-opener at Edgbaston, before they mount […]