Tag: Derek Pringle

Derek Pringle: Fearsome Mark Wood embodies the need for speed

4 August 2024 0 comments

Derek Pringle relished watching England paceman Mark Wood dismantle the West Indies batting during the third Test at Edgbaston.

The colour of cricket

4 August 2024 0 comments

Annie Chave asks why the One Day Cup cannot be played with a red ball

Harry Brook has the right stuff to lead for England

28 July 2024 0 comments

There would have been sniggers as well as knowing nods over Harry Brook’s credentials to be an England captain when the notion was aired last week.

England analysis and comment: The need for speed

21 July 2024 0 comments

Derek Pringle explains that out-and-out pace is just one part of the equation.

Slippery Atkinson barges into the future

14 July 2024 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE It is impossible not to get carried away with Gus Atkinson’s 12-wicket haul to kick off the international […]

JIMMY SWANSONG SHINES LIGHT ON FRAGILE FUTURE

7 July 2024 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Just in case anyone thought the upcoming Lord’s Test against the West Indies was a sentimental farewell […]

Buttler’s England have firepower to win again

26 May 2024 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle England have just two more T20 matches against Pakistan, following Saturday’s pipe-opener at Edgbaston, before they mount […]

Cox at the double as Kent old boy drives Essex on

26 May 2024 0 comments

By Fred Atkins May 24, St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury Essex 591-7d (Cox 207, Snater 83*, Bhuiyan 2-114, Evison 2-93, Parkinson […]

BEEFY WILL DEMAND RESULTS

29 August 2021 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE Icon: Sir Ian Botham almost single-handedly won the 1981 Ashes – when Prime Minister Boris Johnson was just […]

Jimmy Anderson should have know it is a big boy’s game | Derek Pringle

22 August 2021 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE I’M surprised that James Anderson, given his vast experience, doesn’t know that revenge is a dish best served […]

Shafali Verma has the poise and style of Sachin | Derek Pringle

20 June 2021 0 comments

I’VE seen the new Sachin Tendulkar and he wasn’t at Southampton where India are currently playing New Zealand in the […]

Pringle column: Formula for all-rounders is holding England back

6 February 2019 0 comments

England need to start looking at blooding more specialist players if they are to become one of the great sides

Pringle column: Why does trouble always seem to find our great all-rounders?

22 August 2018 0 comments

Why is it always all-rounders?

It’s just not cricket

9 March 2018 0 comments

Dark clouds gather as ECB are slammed in Test ground compensation deal By Jon Couch ●Derek Pringle – page 7 […]

Pair can be justified for exile

2 March 2018 0 comments

WHAT a bitter article penned by Derek Pringle in relation to Adil Rashid and Alex Hales (TCP, Feb 23). The […]

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

Derek Pringle: How players have bent but not broken the rules in cricket

19 September 2017 0 comments

Derek Pringle recalls past moments that have led to law changes

Pringle column: Playing with Botham was something to truly cherish, it was… different

25 July 2017 0 comments

(Photo: Getty Images) By Derek Pringle Ian Botham was in his sixth year as an England super star when I […]

Derek Pringle column – Why IPL may soon become England’s problem

24 May 2017 0 comments

One board believes that its fortunes in white-ball cricket lie with embedding players in the Indian Premier league, the other […]

Derek Pringle column – Force is strong as Gayle cashes in again

25 April 2017 0 comments

Gayle was T20’s poster boy right from the start, nailing his short-form colours to the mast with his infamous, “I wouldn’t be sad” reply to the hypothetical question: what if Test cricket died?