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England News
/ 2 years agoThe true making of Mark Wood
By Richard Edwards Having watched Mark Wood tear in at Headingley, it’s hard to imagine that he was once an opening...
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County Championships
/ 2 years agoBarry’s pride carried by Kyle and Mo 50 years on
By Richard Edwards Barry Richards spent last Wednesday addressing the Hampshire Cricket Society – and, on the 50th anniversary of Hampshire’s...
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ECB Premier Leagues
/ 2 years agoHe’s all right, is Jacques
Scott Oliver on a time when one of the greatest all-rounders the world has ever seen played league cricket in the...
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Ashes
/ 2 years agoBeefy goes electric
MANCHESTER ’81 REVISITED Phil Walker recalls the last time England triumphed over Australia at Old Trafford in the Ashes In a...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoIs this better than 2005? Not just yet
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle England’s current Test cricketers enjoy a round of golf (well, maybe not Jonny Bairstow), but so too do...
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The Definitive...
/ 2 years agoThe Definitive Devon Malcolm
The former England fast bowler looks back on his most hair-raising spells The Boycott scalp Yorkshire XI v Yorkshire Select XI,...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoPick your best keeper – and that means Foakes
DARREN STEVENS Back when I was a teenager playing for Hinckley Town CC in the early 1990s, I had an experimental...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoPlay up, play up and play the game
RICHARD CLARKE 'AKA The Grumbler' About 20 years ago, I played in the Barnet Sunday League for a football team called,...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoSteve Smith –the master craftsman
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN During the week, Cricket Australia released a video of a blindfolded Steve Smith,...
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ECB Premier Leagues
/ 2 years agoWould you Adam and Eve it?
Scott Oliver on a time when Aussie great Adam Gilchrist lit up the Middlesex County League When the teenage Adam Gilchrist...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoNasty, Brutish, Short: Facing up to real pace
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle If the boos resounding around Headingley for Pat Cummins were meant to embarrass Australia’s captain on the opening...
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The Definitive...
/ 2 years agoThe Definitive Mark Ramprakash
The former England, Middlesex and Surrey batter looks back on his run-laden career The lucky break 0 Under-11 trial with Middlesex,...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoFor a county cricketer, nothing beats Finals Day
DARREN STEVENS When I played for Leicestershire in the first-ever T20 Finals Day in 2003, few of us knew what to...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoAnderson’s Ashes hanging by a thread
About five years ago I was interviewed for the job of England selector and was asked by the interview panel how...
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Features
/ 2 years agoThe Lord’s test and elitism
By Tawhid Qureshi An Ashes Test at Lord’s is normally an occasion to relish, a fixture in the British sporting calendar...
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Richard Clarke AKA 'The Grumbler'
/ 2 years agoWill anything really change?
Richard Clarke AKA The Grumbler The day after the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) released its report, they assembled...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoLyon’s cruel luck set to end historic streak
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN Cricket can be cruel at times, with no regard for milestones, records or...
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Ashes
/ 2 years agoWhen England finally broke Lord’s hoodoo
By Rich Edwards It was June 1934 when Hedley Verity spun England to an innings victory over Australia, taking 15-104 in...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoMacho England hooked on self-destruction
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle From Playground to the Test Arena’ was a slogan, now defunct, that the ECB once used to promote...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoWhat is going on at Leicestershire?
DARREN STEVENS I’m a Leicester lover, it’s my home town and the place where I played for the first eight years...
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Featured
/ 2 years agoWill cricket make the Esports leap?
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler In recent years, one of the sports industry’s buzziest buzzwords has been diversification. Having built your...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoA decade on and it’s all change
VIEW FROM DOWN UNDER THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN Ten years ago I covered my first Test match as a reporter. It...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoNo turning back
DEREK PRINGLE Ozball 1, Bazball 0. Tortoise 1, Hare 0. Traditionalists 1, Disruptors 0….. just some of the headlines aired in...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoBob helped set me free, now he’s on the Bazball trail
DARREN STEVENS My first thought when I heard that Rob Key had been appointed managing director of the England men’s cricket...
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Associate Nations
/ 2 years agoCricketing around the World
All-rounder Jenny Thompson embarks on a global tour For years I'd dreamed of playing and writing about women's cricket around the...
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