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/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – No score too large for Gayle and Co to chase
I am currently in Guyana preparing for the top of the table clash in the Caribbean Premier League. My Jamaica Tallawahs...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Squabbles, insults, threats… Oh yes, it’s Pakistan!
England and Pakistan will not be playing for anything tangible this summer, like the Ashes, but given that their cricketing history...
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/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Durham – Minor Counties champions 1976
By Neil Fissler Neil Riddell admits Durham weren’t unhappy that it was the rain which enabled them to claim their first...
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/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – ‘It began so well, until my trip to the loo!’
England have confirmed they will travel to Bangladesh for two Tests and three one-day internationals in October. And the announcement of...
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/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Misbah is a skipper who gels Pakistan together
In Urdu, Misbah means light or lamp, an apt personification for Pakistan’s Misbah-ul-Haq, who in his six years as the country’s...
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/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – I’ll use my factor 60, so please don’t zap me, Bruce!
It’s easily done. You’re just settling down for a cosy afternoon in front of the cricket when you accidentally sit down...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – A day can be a long time in cricket, ask Sunil
I was reading the other day an article about the use of “guided missile microtechnology” to measure the effect of fast...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Give Hawk-Eye power to join out campaign
The eyes of the cricket world will be on Edinburgh next week, not something you write every day, but, in the...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – This was never about scoring points!
What a thriller that was on Tuesday, and one thing is for certain – nobody on the pitch was thinking that...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – Sixes are a bonus but Plunkett’s pace is the real plus
It is unlike me to become sentimental, but with England tying the one-day international at Trent Bridge the other night, I...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoICP Young Gun – Philip Salt
‘So in awe of Sobers, I took his takeaway’ Philip Salt can be forgiven a moment of embarrassment after realising he...
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/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Lancashire – 2003 ECB National League Division Two champions
By Neil Fissler Kyle Hogg admits that West Indian star Carl Hooper was a major influence on Lancashire winning promotion into...
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/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Try Yeovil as there’d never be a ‘murder’ at Lord’s!
Some cricket grounds have more of an aura about them than others, and when a friend phoned the other day to...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – Malan’s earned call but why only one game?
England have announced their squads for the upcoming ODIs and single T20 against Sri Lanka, and it looks like a very...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoRoom 101 – John Blain
Odd socks I can’t stand it when people wear odd socks, it drives me mad. It’s an OCD thing of mine,...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – There is pace… And there is raw pace like Tymal Mills
There is pace that hurries batsmen and then there is real pace that threatens their well-being, and Tymal Mills possesses the...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoICP Young Gun – Kamau Leverock
‘My 20st uncle made a splash, now I want it to be my turn’ If you do not recognise Dwayne Leverock...
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/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – All counties need equal TV exposure
With the One-Day Cup and T20 Blast now in full flow, there is plenty of county action on our TV screens...
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/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Warwickshire – John Player Sunday League Champions 1980
By Neil Fissler Andy Lloyd remembers well Bob Willis’ first season in charge of Warwickshire as it brought about a change...
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Club Cricket
/ 9 years agoIndian touring team visits academy in Leicestershire
An Indian touring team visited a Leicestershire cricket academy last week to compete in a prestigious tournament. St Xavier’s Collegiate School...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – There are some guys who just thrive off being bad
A nicer man than Vic Marks would be hard to find, and the dialogue as he walked out to bat for...
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/ 9 years agoRoom 101 – Calum MacLeod
Traffic jams I hate anything which delays me getting somewhere but, more specifically, 50 mph speed restrictions bother me. Going up...
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/ 9 years agoDream Team – Gary Pratt
The former Durham batsman picks the best XI he has played with and against… Jimmy Maher – retired Jimmy came over...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPaul Nixon column – I’d have hated to umpire if Dev was bowling
Of all the performances to come out of the recent second Test in Durham, from Moeen Ali’s attacking century to Jimmy...
