Club Cricket
Richard Clarke: Luke Fletcher, Joe Leach a dying breed
There was a time when Luke Fletcher’s preparation for a cricket match consisted of two paracetamols plus a double sausage and egg McMuffin.
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Club Cricket
/ 7 months agoRichard Clarke: T20 Blast finals day is magical, unique
It is 10am on September 4, 1993 and I am shouting at cricket fans as they shuffle into Lord’s. To a...
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Featured
/ 9 months agoANYONE FOR TENNIS?
Richard Clarke Richard Clarke wonders, with Test cricket likely to be played in a window in future, what the sport could...
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoACCESS ALL AREAS
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler RICHARD CLARKE SAYS ENGLISH CRICKET NEEDS TO GET ENGAGED Everything we’ve done up until now isn’t...
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ICC Cricket World Cup
/ 10 months agoTHE HISTORY BOYS
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler The phrase “history is written by the winners” has been widely misattributed. Ironically, most people believe...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 10 months agoRapid pace of change sees members stuck in the middle
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler This column is called The Grumbler for good reason. It is the pseudonym I first used...
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County Championships
/ 10 months agoThe hare and the tortoise
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler If Jerry Springer was still on the telly, my relationship with the County Championship would be...
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Featured
/ 11 months agoFocus on the fans
By RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler How red-ball cricket can survive if attention is paid to those who are still paying...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 11 months agoTime for transfer talk to get real
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler In the next week or so, the county cricket rumour mill will start to turn. On...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 11 months agoThe long goodbye?
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler As you might expect from one of the world’s most literate sports, county cricket has been...
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County News/The Hundred
/ 11 months agoHandle with care
RICHARD CLARKE This week, two contrasting voices uttered the most sacrilegious statement in British sport – the Premier League is becoming...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 12 months agoListening to the voices of reason
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler Picture the scene. In 20 years’ time, the first Grumbler grandchild clambers upon my knee as...
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County Championships
/ 12 months agoGrounds for concern
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler My local non-league football club were eyeing promotion before the winter flooding. But between Boxing Day...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 12 months agoOf county and country
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler For many Essex fans, Stuart Turner remains something of a folk hero. Yes, Graham Gooch bullied...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoWinners one and all…and an alternative set of County awards
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Grumbler’s first annual county cricket awards gala dinner. It is...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoLet us not go down the football route
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler The relationship between modern sport and morality has become increasingly strained in the past few decades....
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoDurham good guys doing the business
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler There are very few things in cricket upon which almost everyone agrees. Fence-sitting is out of...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoAn Olympic return is such a game-changer
Richard Clarke Every four years, without fail, I take up an interest in a new sport. Despite never being the most...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoChampionship is still favourite with fans
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler Miss Rogers was a nice teacher. She was my form tutor for a year and, although...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoPulling power
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler Jimi Hendrix always used a Fender Stratocaster, Bruce Springsteen is never seen on stage without his...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoThat’s how the game should be
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler We are told the future of cricket is city franchises. Like Brigadoon, the fabled Scottish village...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoA method to Jack’s madness
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler It is apt that, during a summer in which the bucket hat is once again English...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoLook how much it’s changed!
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler Late in the evening on September 7, 1963, a musical variety show at the Victoria Palace...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoIs there method to bananas madness?
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler The Savannah Bananas are a baseball team like no other. Owner Jesse Cole has turned around...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoPassing on the legacy of Beefy
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler At the end of the first day at the Old Trafford Test, reserve umpire Martin Saggers...
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