Tag: Nick Compton

My mission statement: Turn England into World Cup winners

11 August 2024 0 comments

It’s two years since Kent released me but the fire still burns and I’m certainly not hanging up my boots just yet. As a matter of fact, I’ve just been appointed England captain (unofficially). That’s England Over40s, to be precise.

Reigate Priory on top in Surrey

30 June 2024 0 comments

Veteran: Nick Compton made an appearance in the Surrey Championship REIGATE PRIORY put in a dominant performance over Weybridge to […]

Mo’s bid for three-dom!

16 July 2023 0 comments

Ali can pull punches early, says Compton By Gary Fitzgerald Former England opener Nick Compton believes giving Moeen Ali the […]

PITTING ON PROMISE IS LIKE GOING BACK TO THE DAYS OF FLETCHER

29 September 2019 0 comments

Derek Pringle runs the rule over the new-look England squad to tour New Zealand this winter, questioning the absence of […]

MY DREAM XI

29 March 2019 0 comments

Middlesex spinner Nathan Sowter selects the best XI of players he has played with during his cricketing travels around the […]

Ex-England batsman Compton retires from cricket

5 October 2018 0 comments

The batsman scored two Test hundreds for England

LONG-FORM GAME ISN’T LOOKING QUITE SO OLD…

4 May 2018 0 comments

ISABELLE WESTBURY Is there a more satisfying cricketing feeling? Essex celebrate the spoils of a five-month slog with the Championship […]

Pringle column: Why two divisions have been toxic for the County Championship

24 April 2018 0 comments

Derek Pringle disects a system he describes as ‘flawed’

Cleaning up in Spring can decide where the Championship trophy lands

18 April 2018 0 comments

Derek Pringle discusses how the usual seam-friendly conditions of April and May can set bowlers up for the rest of the campaign

Hayter column: Bairstow always had value in ODI team, he’s just not flashy like Roy

26 September 2017 0 comments

Peter Hayter asks would Bairstow have ever been dropped as opener if Joe Root was England’s ODI captain?

Toby’s back doing what he does best

8 September 2017 0 comments

Jeremy Blackmore meets the Middlesex paceman looking to prove the England selectors wrong Star man JOHN SIMPSON: Middlesex His second-innings […]

HERE’S MY OPENING GAMBIT: MOVEON UP SKIPPER!

11 August 2017 0 comments

PETER HAYTER Room at the top: Joe Root has been a success opening for England before PICTURE: Getty Images As […]

HOWDY PARTNER! REMIND ME WHAT’S THE NAME?

11 August 2017 0 comments

MARTIN JOHNSON Sometime in the not too distant future, when Alastair Cook is pushing a trolley down the aisle in […]

Viewpoint: Top three must begin to deliver for Bayliss

12 July 2017 0 comments

(Photo: Getty Images) Derek Pringle on England’s bad habit of misfiring starts to their Test innings… It was Michael Atherton, […]

Trott gets Bears ticking but Middlesex come out on top in nail-biter

10 July 2017 0 comments

(Photo: Getty Images) By Paul Bolton Jonathan Trott relished the extra responsibilities of captaincy by leading from the front in […]

Trott skips to new beat for the Bears

7 July 2017 0 comments

Paul Bolton discovers the responsibility of captaincy sits comfortably with the veteran batsman Warwickshire 334 (Clarke 83, Murtagh 3-85) & […]

Middlesex ‘must get on a roll now’

23 June 2017 0 comments

Jeremy Blackmore sees the champions gain their first win of the season as Yorkshire struggle Star man SAM ROBSON – […]

Peter Hayter column – We’re in need of smoothie talking Monty…

2 May 2017 0 comments

I’m not a great fan of smoothies, but the concoction Monty Panesar recently served up to his 148,000 Twitter followers […]

Compton and Crane show their worth

28 April 2017 0 comments

SECOND XI ROUND-UP By Chris Hughes IF NICK Compton can transfer his second XI form to the Middlesex first-team then […]

WE’RE IN NEEDOF SMOOTHIE TALKING MONTY…

28 April 2017 0 comments

PETER HAYTER I’m not a great fan of smoothies, but the concoction Monty Panesar recently served up to his 148,000 […]

BAT’S JUST LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!

7 April 2017 0 comments

Derek Pringle looks at the bond a player builds with his favourite willow… Derek Pringle Cricket bats are more than […]

Bid to defend title will fill England void for Compton

31 March 2017 0 comments

By Jeremy Blackmore NICK COMPTON has warned Middlesex they cannot afford to rest on their laurels as they defend their […]

A GAME LOST TO SPORT’S MONEY MAKERS…

31 March 2017 0 comments

PETER HAYTER For those of us who have been banging on about the absolute necessity of getting live cricket – […]

Hales may survive but there can be no place for Vince

23 August 2016 0 comments

Chris Stocks looks ahead to the winter double tour to Bangladesh and India and chooses his party for the arduous […]

England selectors raise a few eyebrows with Ballance selection

12 July 2016 0 comments

England have recently announced their squad to face Pakistan in the first test match of the series against Lord’s on […]