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Features
/ 12 months agoOn this day in 2004: Brian Lara makes record Test score of 400*
On this day 20 years ago, Brian Lara regained the individual Test score world record on his way to an unbeaten...
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Features
/ 1 year agoCotton, Cricket and Football: Billy Cook, the Life of a Lancashire League Legend
Cotton, Cricket and Football: Billy Cook, the Life of a Lancashire League Legend is the colourful story of one of Lancashire’s greatest...
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Features
/ 1 year agoEarly exit puts Champions Trophy at risk – England’s dismal World Cup defence
England’s fifth defeat of their World Cup title defence continued their abject slide towards elimination. Matthew Mott and Jos Buttler’s side...
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Features
/ 1 year agoEngland’s shock World Cup defeats as Afghanistan add their name to list
England slumped to a shock World Cup defeat against Afghanistan in Delhi. The defending champions were dismissed for 215 as they...
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England News
/ 1 year agoNo sweat: England great Cook was always cool in the heat of battle
Sir Alastair Cook famously never sweated throughout his record-breaking career. Even back in December 2010 after seven hours in the 40...
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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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Features
/ 2 years agoMAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR OF EUROPE BOWLED ME OVER
Jet-setter Jenny Thompson embarks on part two of her whistlestop global cricketing tour, taking in 30 European countries along the way...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoTradition runs deep amid power disparity
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Surrey’s second County Championship in as many years has meant the last seven seasons have been much like...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoOver and out!
DARREN STEVENS Rob Key, my old Kent captain and a great mate, has been on at me about retiring for a...
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Mel Farrell
/ 2 years agoIt’s an Indian summer for the Championship
It’s been a difficult season for Northamptonshire languishing at the wrong end of the table in the first division of the...
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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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England News
/ 2 years agoCrawley one of the old school
By Richard Edwards He may have looked like Franz Beckenbauer with a football at his feet, but during his time at...
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England News
/ 2 years agoCross has paved the way for a new generation
By Richard Edwards Kate Cross has broken new ground throughout her career – but sometimes wishes she hadn’t needed to. The...
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Club
/ 2 years agoKing Viv rules up north
Scott Oliver looks back to 1987 when Sir Viv Richards, at the height of his powers, turned out for Rishton in...
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Features
/ 2 years agoThe one that got away
Back in 1987, England took on Australia for the right to be called world champions. Bill Athey and Philip DeFreitas remember...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoTim can look back on a spell-binding career
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle All eras end eventually and so it is with the Age of Tim Murtagh at Middlesex, after the...
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Darren Stevens
/ 2 years agoThe 50-over game is in better nick than ever
DARREN STEVENS Last Saturday at Edgbaston I was flicking from one 50-over game to another, the match going on in front...
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Featured
/ 2 years agoFOOTPRINTS OF A MASTER SCRIBE
DAVID Foot, who died two years ago at the age of 92, was one of those journalists who loathed the prosaic....
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ICC Cricket World Cup
/ 2 years agoAll-rounders like Liam could be so key in India
View from Down Under THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN The period leading into a World Cup is a boon for armchair selectors...
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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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Club Cricket
/ 2 years agoKapil’s star turn at Nelson
Scott Oliver rewinds to the time when Indian all-rounder Kapil Dev bestrode club cricket’s stage For the cricketers of the Lancashire...
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Derek Pringle
/ 2 years agoAll bases covered for Indian mission
DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Cricket is not just a game where 11 players pit their skills and wits against 11 others, but...
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Featured
/ 2 years agoUncapped wonders
DARREN STEVENS FIVE WHO SHOULD HAVE PLAYED FOR ENGLAND If I was to list all the players I’ve come up against...
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Features
/ 2 years agoHawks swoop to take title honours
By Dan Whiting THE SECOND season of the ECB Disability Premier League (DPL) concluded on Wednesday as the Hawks beat the...
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Features
/ 2 years agoThe academy boys – two decades on
By Richard Edwards We were walking along the beachfront in our training gear and we got stopped by an Aussie –...
