Tag: column

Paul Nixon column – We can’t leave all players to learn on own…

21 February 2017 0 comments

Coaching has changed in the past decade or so with more onus being on players to work things out for […]

Derek Pringle column – Capturing the soul of cricket and its legends

7 February 2017 0 comments

Has there been a game or sport more celebrated by art than cricket? From the 17th century country house artists […]

Nixon column: Glen has quality to thrive in Lancashire boss role

25 January 2017 0 comments

(Photo: Getty Images) By Paul Nixon Lancashire have followed in the footsteps of Yorkshire and Kent this season by appointing […]

Paul Nixon column – Sorry, but there’ll be no Vardy style tale in cricket

17 January 2017 0 comments

With the 2017 season not too far away, counties will be looking at any late big signings they can make, […]

Paul Nixon column – Never get too high on praise or low on criticism

16 November 2016 0 comments

The media will always have a role to play in cricket. Whether it’s good things being written about you and […]

Simon Sweetman column – Fagg’s amazing record stands unchallenged

31 October 2016 0 comments

The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events From time to time we might sit back and consider those cricketing […]

Paul Nixon column – Batty’s call-up sending out right message

26 September 2016 0 comments

There would have been a few eyebrows raised last Friday when the announcement came through that Gareth Batty had been […]

Martin Johnson column – Well, it’s cricket Jim, but not as we know it!

16 August 2016 0 comments

I have a question. Do people buy a ticket for a day at the Test match and then dress up […]

Derek Pringle column – English game needs to give spin a chance

26 July 2016 0 comments

The recent heat wave should have had spinners all over England loosening their fingers. Even a few days of 90-degree […]

Martin Johnson column – Milton’s paradise not lost, thanks to snicko

19 July 2016 0 comments

The year is 2058 – the 50th anniversary of DRS in Test cricket – and the tannoy crackles into life […]

Paul Nixon column – No score too large for Gayle and Co to chase

12 July 2016 0 comments

I am currently in Guyana preparing for the top of the table clash in the Caribbean Premier League. My Jamaica […]

There is more to Gayle than the bling and the bravado

14 June 2016 0 comments

Alison Mitchell meets the Universe Boss and discovers a man still trying to understand why he has been engulfed in […]

Derek Pringle column – North v South… It’s not so cut and dry for me

16 May 2016 0 comments

It is difficult to know whether the North v South one-day series stated for next March is an innovation, a […]

Peter Hayter column – Robo-ump will need his smart phone and new app!

4 May 2016 0 comments

Assuming the reports in The Times weren’t part of a late April fool’s gag, if the inventor of Hawk-Eye technology […]

Peter Hayter column – Viv would have been on Cook’s side over helmets

26 April 2016 0 comments

To see or not to see, that appears to be the question Alastair Cook has been given no choice to […]

Paul Nixon column – Brendon’s knock so special but Viv is still king

2 March 2016 0 comments

By Paul Nixon You couldn’t have written a better script, could you? Brendon McCullum strides to the crease on the […]

Kepler Wessels exclusive column

2 February 2016 0 comments

THE victory in Centurion was a much-needed one for South Africa and is sure to boost the morale of the […]

Paul Nixon column – Don’t take sledging too far

11 January 2016 0 comments

During the second day of the second Test at Newlands, Ben Stokes made the headlines for all the right reasons. […]

Marcus North column

25 November 2015 0 comments

Well, how quickly things happen these days! We had been talking about the ‘possibility’ of Mitchell Johnson retiring after he had […]

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 […]

Room 101: Ross Whiteley, Worcestershire all-rounder