Features

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

Why Mills’ transfer was the IPL’s most intriguing

22 February 2017 0 comments

(Photo: Getty Images) By Harvey Burgess Ben Stokes’s £1.7m transfer at the IPL auction on Sunday may have developed into […]

Profile: Four key West Indies players

22 February 2017 0 comments

(Photo: Getty Images) By Harvey Burgess As England gear up for the three-match ODI series against West Indies in the […]

Discount Wisden Playfair Book Offer

10 February 2017 0 comments

Secure your WISDEN CRICKETERS’ ALMANACK 2017 together with a FREE copy of PLAYFAIR CRICKET ANNUAL 2017.

Virat Kohli on the cover of 2017 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack

3 February 2017 0 comments

Wisden editor Lawrence Booth said: “The cover of Wisden 2017 shows him playing a reverse sweep – the kind of unorthodoxy that would once have been frowned upon, but is now part of batting’s bread and butter.”

Kia Super League fixtures released

1 February 2017 0 comments

SOUTHERN Vipers will begin their defence of the Kia Super League by playing in the first game of the 2017 tournament

County Archives – Kent 1970

31 January 2017 0 comments

Led by the people’s champion, Colin Cowdrey

County Archives: Somerset 2001

25 January 2017 0 comments

When Cox’s upstarts laid down the gauntlet to the big guns

Crumbling plans: how a fielding team’s arduous research of a top batsman can be their own undoing

25 January 2017 0 comments

Imposing: Sir Viv Richards was not a man you would look to ‘rough up’ at the crease (photo: Getty Images) […]

Proud ‘Englishmen’ or just cricketing mercenaries… Who gets your vote?

17 January 2017 0 comments

The adopted Englishman is a curious beast, but who would be your top ‘outsider’ to wear the Three Lions? Derek […]

Alastair Cook ready to stand down as England captain, Joe Root next man in

9 January 2017 0 comments

A big shake-up expected in the England camp.

Chris Lynn Just Went Absolutely Crazy

5 January 2017 0 comments

The Brisbane Heat batsman went off against Perth

The Cricket Paper voted ECB County Newspaper of the Year

25 October 2016 1 comment

The Cricket Paper’s Executive Editor, Alex Narey, said: “The Cricket Paper is delighted to receive this award as recognition for its continued efforts to report and offer coverage of the county game.”

Derbyshire sign South African leg-spinner Imran Tahir ahead of 2017 season

24 October 2016 0 comments

(Photo: Getty Images) By Harvey Burgess The South African leg-spinner Imran Tahir has joined Derbyshire as an overseas player for […]

Exciting finish at ‘special’ cricket contest

23 August 2016 0 comments

A Leicester cricket competition which attracted young players from across the world concluded in dramatic style. The finals of the […]

Discount Wisden Playfair Book Offer

28 February 2016 0 comments

The Cricket Paper is delighted to offer you this year’s WISDEN CRICKETERS’ ALMANACK 2016 (RRP £50) together with a FREE copy of PLAYFAIR CRICKET ANNUAL 2016 (RRP £8.99) for just £42.99…

Yours all year – The Cricket Paper to remain on sale throughout the winter!

11 September 2015 0 comments

FOLLOWING England’s success in this summer’s Ashes series, The Cricket Paper will be following the Three Lions every step of the way as they now go on to South Africa, having already faced Pakistan in UAE.

Where are they now? Warwickshire – Treble winners 1994

1 September 2015 0 comments

Dominic Ostler believes that Warwickshire’s 1994 campaign was the greatest enjoyed by any county side.

Key Ashes battles

7 July 2015 0 comments

We look at some of the key battles that could decide the location of the urn.

VIDEO: “We Are England” – Alastair Cook, James Anderson & Co on what it means to play for England

6 July 2015 0 comments

Watch England stars past and present describe what it really means to play for your country

LV= Breakthrough Player Award shortlist announced

30 June 2015 0 comments

Six of the county game’s brightest young talents have been shortlisted for this year’s LV= Breakthrough Player Award. Alex Davies […]

Peter Hayter’s column: Ashes battle MUST be fought in right spirit

23 June 2015 0 comments

The Australians are here, the first Ashes Test starts a fortnight on Wednesday in Cardiff, and the memories of the […]

Bairstow: I’m a perfect fit for ‘new’ England

22 June 2015 0 comments

IF Jonny Bairstow is on the outside looking in as far as England are concerned, his sheer weight of runs will almost certainly batter the front door down before long.