Peter Hayter

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

IT’S BEEN A SUMMER WE CAN SAVOUR

19 September 2021 0 comments

PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket An international season that ends the way this 2021 summer version has done cannot be described as […]

AN ACTION TO MAKE PURISTS SCREAM

12 September 2021 0 comments

PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket In the aftermath of defeat by India in the fourth Test at The Oval, England captain Joe […]

THE MILKY BAR KID HAD ME FOOLED!

5 September 2021 0 comments

PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket An apology: along with no other newspapers or media outlets this column recently suggested that England had […]

PONGOING IS JUST NOT TEST CRICKET

29 August 2021 0 comments

PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket The debt England cricket owes to Sir Andrew Strauss is huge. As a Test batsman the Middlesex […]

Virat Kohli is a friend for life | Peter Hayter

22 August 2021 0 comments

Donald Trump is not renowned for his love of cricket, but the great manipulator has always known how to play […]

No disgusted colonels this time, only sympathy | Peter Hayter

15 August 2021 0 comments

Reaction to the news that England’s Ashes tour might be under threat from players ruling themselves out of selection if […]

Demons choose random victims | Peter Hayter

8 August 2021 0 comments

HOW long after the news of Ben Stokes’ decision to take a break from cricket did it take for the […]

Alex Hales is a symbol of wrong decisions | Peter Hayter

1 August 2021 0 comments

Judging solely by the look on Alex Hales’ face at the end of The Hundred match between Trent Rockets and […]

HISTORIC 100 TIE WAS LIKE MINI T20

25 July 2021 0 comments

PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket THERE’S NO BLOCKING! IT’S BISH! BASH! BOSH!” Eyes fixed behind Michael Caine’s spare pair of specs from […]

Goose made the whole world gander | Peter Hayter

18 July 2021 0 comments

Edgbaston, England, Pakistan and Sky TV all did Bob Willis proud this week, hosting, playing and presenting an absorbing match […]

Could Ben Stokes by the root of change? | Peter Hayter

11 July 2021 0 comments

Currently level with Michael Vaughan on 26, Joe Root may be one victory away from becoming the England captain with […]

A TRUE TALENT, BUT SO BEAUTIFULLY BONKERS

4 July 2021 0 comments

PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket For the most obvious reason the summer of 1981 will be regarded forever as one of the […]

It was all in a day’s work for Beefy | Peter Hayter

27 June 2021 0 comments

For those who lived through the extraordinary, nation-changing cricketing events of the summer of 1981 commonly known as Botham’s Ashes, […]

Panic is no bad thing for Joe Root | Peter Hayter

20 June 2021 0 comments

@phaytercricket Joe Root reckons that, despite his England’s side abject display against New Zealand at Edgbaston, this is not the […]

JIMMY’S PASSION IS FIERCE AS EVER

13 June 2021 0 comments

PETER HAYTER @phaytercricket I thought Jimmy Anderson was joking but as it turned out he could not have been more serious. […]

Peter Hayter

IT’S BEEN A SUMMER WE CAN SAVOUR

AN ACTION TO MAKE PURISTS SCREAM

THE MILKY BAR KID HAD ME FOOLED!

PONGOING IS JUST NOT TEST CRICKET

Virat Kohli is a friend for life | Peter Hayter

No disgusted colonels this time, only sympathy | Peter Hayter

Demons choose random victims | Peter Hayter

Alex Hales is a symbol of wrong decisions | Peter Hayter

HISTORIC 100 TIE WAS LIKE MINI T20

Goose made the whole world gander | Peter Hayter

Could Ben Stokes by the root of change? | Peter Hayter

A TRUE TALENT, BUT SO BEAUTIFULLY BONKERS

It was all in a day’s work for Beefy | Peter Hayter

Panic is no bad thing for Joe Root | Peter Hayter

JIMMY’S PASSION IS FIERCE AS EVER

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