Tag: jonathan agnew

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 […]

Agnew standing down as BBC cricket correspondent

3 April 2024 0 comments

Jonathan Agnew has announced he will step down as the BBC’s cricket correspondent at the end of the summer, but […]

The dark satanic mills of Lord’s

9 July 2023 0 comments

By Dan Crowley The Barmy Army are fond of declaring (rhetorically one hopes) that they will not cease from their […]

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

Pringle column: No favours to your teammates in the press box please Sir Alastair Cook

29 January 2019 0 comments

Alastair Cook recently conceded he is unwilling to openly criticise ex-England teammates Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad

Diverging paths forget role of sport and media

24 August 2018 0 comments

Straight talking: Graeme Swann, left, with Jonathan Agnew, questioned the timing of an interview with Stuart Broad during the first […]

Johnson column: Sandpapergate was so hysterical it’s a wonder the EU hasn’t expelled Australian diplomats

3 April 2018 0 comments

Martin Johnson recalls a couple of instances of ball-tampering on English soil

PLANNING TO TAMPER? YOU MUST BE HAVING A LAUGH!

30 March 2018 0 comments

MARTIN JOHNSON Every cloud, as they say, and with Test cricket struggling to pay the bills nowadays, I think I […]

IT’S BEEN BEASTLY SO WE’RE ALL STILL INDOORS

2 March 2018 0 comments

PAUL NIXON WWW.PAULNIXONCRICKET.COM Coming in from the cold: The extreme weather has confined counties to the indoor nets PICTURE: Getty […]

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 […]

BLOWERS TICKS ON AND HE’LL BOW OUT IN STYLE

30 June 2017 0 comments

MARTIN JOHNSON It was one of Henry Blofeld’s fellow Test Match Special commentators who once said of him, fondly it […]

Martin Johnson column – How Boycs and Edrich set TMS off on flights of fancy…

8 November 2016 0 comments

In common with many others, I wearily stretched out a hand to locate the bedside radio button last week, only […]

Martin Johnson column – I’m missing fast show but Agnew and Lloyd won’t be…

23 August 2016 0 comments

There is no finer sight in cricket than a genuinely fast bowler in full cry, mixing up the 100mph inswinging […]

Martin Johnson column – There’d be no fun if Geoffrey’s mum was at No.11

6 June 2016 0 comments

There are one or two instances in which Wisden’s claim to be cricket’s unimpeachable bible fails to stand up to […]

Alison Mitchell – A look at cricket in Rwanda

21 December 2015 0 comments

Alison Mitchell recounts the remarkable tale of Rwandan cricket Earlier this week a small yellow digger manoeuvred itself into position […]

Alison Mitchell looks back at Pakistan 2005

24 November 2015 0 comments

Alison Mitchell remembers the sights and sounds of Pakistan 2005 The recent terrorist attacks in Paris reminded us that we may […]

Where are they now? Leicestershire – Benson & Hedges Cup winners 1985

26 May 2015 0 comments

By Neil Fissler Leicestershire had a rich history in the Benson & Hedges Cup after beating Yorkshire to win the […]