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/ 8 years agoThe Cricket Paper voted ECB County Newspaper of the Year
The Cricket Paper’s Executive Editor, Alex Narey, said: “The Cricket Paper is delighted to receive this award as recognition for its...
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/ 8 years agoEveryone will benefit if Celts get invite to the new T20
Tim Wigmore’s weekly look at the game below the Test-playing nations A revolution is coming to English domestic cricket. Many will...
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/ 8 years agoDerbyshire sign South African leg-spinner Imran Tahir ahead of 2017 season
(Photo: Getty Images) By Harvey Burgess The South African leg-spinner Imran Tahir has joined Derbyshire as an overseas player for the...
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/ 8 years agoMartin Johnson column – Who needs style if you can play it to the max?
There have been many fast bowlers down the years – Holding, Lillee, Hall – with actions graceful enough to set to...
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/ 8 years agoDerek Pringle column – Culture of game not to blame for this tragedy
The dead cannot speak, but if they could I’m not sure Phillip Hughes would have approved of the rancour that has...
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/ 8 years agoMarcus North column – Spin in India can make the best look foolish
I only played two Test matches on the sub-continent, against India back in 2010. In the first Test at Chandigarh, I...
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/ 8 years agoPeter Hayter column – Duck, that Anderson glare is like Sybil’s umbrella!
James Anderson has rarely been compared to the wife of Basil Fawlty. But I’ve only ever seen the look he fired...
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/ 8 years agoWhere are they now? Derbyshire – Benson & Hedges Cup finalists 1978
By Neil Fissler Derbyshire shocked the country in reaching the Benson & Hedges Cup final but preparation for their big day...
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/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Old game springs to life just as T20 moves in for kill
Scientists have made a couple of important discoveries in the past week, but exciting though it is to think that there...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Work to be done for Essex to shake off yo-yo tag
The biggest challenge of promotion it seems, for those teams which manage it like my old county Essex, is adapting to...
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/ 9 years agoMarcus North column – Nice work Dizzy… A top coach but also a top man
Yorkshire are on the hunt for a new coach with Jason Gillespie returning to his homeland, having gained massive popularity in...
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/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Batty’s call-up sending out right message
There would have been a few eyebrows raised last Friday when the announcement came through that Gareth Batty had been selected...
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/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Let’s face up to real perils of touring…
There seems to have been a fair amount of tut-tutting and eyebrow raising over Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales opting out...
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/ 9 years agoOutgrounds – Surrey
Tree-lined Guildford still able to deliver the festival fun for Surrey Dan Whiting’s journey through cricket’s more unlikely venues takes him...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Selectors can find that wow factor in Div Two
Is the selection of England’s international teams an art or a science? The fudged answer, with that old image of selectors...
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/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Morgan’s no-show will cost him trust of Strauss
The decision of Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales not to tour Bangladesh prompted one columnist to evoke the spirit of Mr...
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/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Botham! There’s an all-round talent for you Trev…
Every now and then, I find myself being overpowered by that dark and irresistible force known as ‘Fred Trueman Syndrome’. All...
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/ 9 years agoOutgrounds – Somerset
Somerset have cut back on road trips but Taunton has festival vibe Dan Whiting explains why traditional outgrounds of Somerset, like...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Tinker with the talent… but not too much
It was Pakistan’s parting shot, a swashbuckling T20 win over England that saw all their old characteristics of verve and swagger...
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/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Surrey – NatWest Trophy finalists 1991
By Neil Fissler Surrey must have thought that they had one hand on the NatWest Trophy for the second time after...
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/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – The Judge was our original master blaster!
It had to happen, but the fact that it took so long for someone to break Robin Smith’s record for the...
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/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Jimmy’s switch is so much like King Javed’s
When they next come to film another re-make of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I’d like to suggest a new twist...
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/ 9 years agoOutgrounds – Nottinghamshire
When Notts were hosting Yorkshire there was often feud for thought Dan Whiting continues his nationwide tour of county cricket’s lesser...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – My class of ‘92 has edge over Morgan’s mavericks
Until the current England 50-over team began ripping up the record books, the general consensus was that the team which contested...
