Tag: david gower

A Cricket Life with Jonathan Agnew

14 April 2024 0 comments

A regular feature charting the lives of the game’s stars, this week the TMS frontman – who will stand down […]

Calmore still buzzing from their big day at Lord’s

26 September 2021 0 comments

By Richard Edwards IT has been party time in a small corner of Southampton this week after Calmore’s National Village […]

Beefy set to play for the Lords team

29 August 2021 0 comments

CRICKET legends and members of the Houses of Parliament and Lords will compete in a charity cricket match next month. […]

‘LORD TED’ WAS JUST AN ALL-ROUND GREAT

29 August 2021 0 comments

Roderick Easdale looks back on the life of Ted Dexter, who died this week at the age of 86 Ted […]

ZAK ATTACK!

23 August 2020 0 comments

Crawley and Buttler smash records galore to put Pakistan to the sword in final Test Smile of a hero: Zak […]

MEMORIES LURKING IN BACK OF A CUPBOARD

23 August 2020 0 comments

MARTIN JOHNSON One of the stranger spin-offs from the Covid lockdown was the way hitherto humdrum activities became positively stimulating. […]

Gower bids his Sky farewell with some sympathy for Root

15 September 2019 0 comments

By Richard Edwards Over and out: David Gower in the Sky commentary box DAVID GOWER reluctantly bows out of the […]

Run records tumble but don’t satisfy the bosses

21 June 2019 0 comments

By Richard Rae So near but yet so far: Ryan Higgins fell just one run short of a double century […]

WRATH OF WOODERS WOULDN’T BE LOST ON HALES

10 May 2019 0 comments

MARTIN JOHNSON Whatever recreational substance Alex Hales was on, presumably from somewhere other than over the counter at Boots, there […]

Johnson column: Tiger at Augusta? Nothing beats the comeback of David Gower

23 April 2019 0 comments

A washout at Cheltenham in the 1980s, surely no chance of play – at least is what players and the press thought

Kohli’s the closest we have had to The Don

15 March 2019 0 comments

Garfield Robinson compares the talents of Virat Kohli to that of the great Sir Don Bradman and explains why the […]

Martin Johnson column: No bruising paceman will forgo their fear factor

28 February 2019 0 comments

When a batsman’s bottle was broken. But bowlers can be vulnerable too to their short fuses

LIFE ON TOUR: AIR SCARES, MUD CRABS ANDQUOITS…

25 January 2019 0 comments

MARTIN JOHNSON If there’s one thing shrinking faster than the Amazonian rainforest or an Arctic glacier, it’s the overseas cricket […]

IT’S TIME TO SHINE LIGHT ON CRICKET’S DARK SIDE

17 August 2018 0 comments

MARTIN JOHNSON How uplifting, I thought, as the cameras panned around the ground at Lord’s last week to see so […]

LORD’S CAN BE MAGICAL, BUT ALSO SCARY, FOR DEBUTANTS

10 August 2018 0 comments

It will be a nerve-racking business for Ollie Pope to make his Test debut at Lord’s – just like I […]

PICKING A DUFFERS XI? YOU’D BE HERE ALL DAY…

8 June 2018 0 comments

MARTIN JOHNSON Regular viewers of Sky’s closeof- play cricket programme The Verdict may be surprised to learn that the death […]

New scheme launched allowing fans to buy shares in Nursery End at Lord’s

25 April 2018 0 comments

Consortium involving David Gower takes measure to create funds to buy land but the media centre at the Home of Cricket

WHY I STILL WANT VINCE TO BEAT HIS TEST HOODOO

20 April 2018 0 comments

The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events SIMON SWEETMAN No big scores: James Vince Oh, James Vince! A batsman […]

The sex and drug-fuelled tour to New Zealand that never was…

4 April 2018 0 comments

Graeme Fowler recalls the 1983-84 tour, in which he was an innocent party, that led him to having his bag searched at Heathrow for the next ten years

Sex and drug-fuelled tour that never was…

30 March 2018 0 comments

ACTION REPLAY As England falter in New Zealand, Richard Edwards gets the lowdown on a controversial tour there 34 years […]

Where there’s a will, there is a way to winning at the WACA

15 December 2017 0 comments

Derek Pringle looks back at his good, bad and indifferent experiences of one of England’s least favourite venues The WACA […]

JUSTASK AB, AGGERS’ PLOY MAY F****** DO TRICK, TOO

27 October 2017 0 comments

MARTIN JOHNSON I’d half been expecting it, but when I walked into the golf club bar and the steward said […]

Can’t bat… Can’t bowl… Can’t field… Are you sure?

13 October 2017 0 comments

ACTION REPL AY Richard Edwards looks back to the 1986-87 series when cynics in the Press were made to eat […]

Pringle column: Gary Ballance must dig deep to escape the Last Chance Saloon

3 October 2017 0 comments

The players who either did or didn’t manage to fight their way back into their country’s Test team

Three is still the magic number for our selectors

29 September 2017 0 comments

The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events SIMON SWEETMAN Making his Mark: Mark Butcher was the last Englishman to […]