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Universe Boss must let real bat do talking from now on

30 May 2016 0 comments

Derek Pringle is always prepared to listen to players who go off-message but feels that Chris Gayle has gone too […]

London youngsters battle it out at Lord’s in disability cricket championships

24 May 2016 1 comment

Teams from across the Capital battled it out at the home of cricket on Friday in the Lord’s Taverners Disability […]

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 […]

ICP Young Gun – Ollie McGee

30 March 2016 0 comments

English cricket has produced its fair share of world-class left-arm spinners in recent years, and Durham and Northumberland hotshot Ollie […]

Cricket Fans Love More Than Just Cricket

10 March 2016 0 comments

Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, with an estimated 2.5 billion fans. Only soccer is more […]

Expert Guide to Profitable Betting on T20 Cricket World Cup

8 March 2016 0 comments

Cricket buffs from around the world brace themselves to see the sixes raining the subcontinent as T20 world cup arrives. […]

A Brief History of Gambling in Cricket

4 March 2016 0 comments

That some cricket fans enjoy betting on the sport should come as little surprise to anyone. After all, it’s been […]

We’ll miss Brendon McCullum…

1 March 2016 0 comments

Derek Pringle looks at the spectacular career of a New Zealand icon and his legacy in international cricket Brendon McCullum […]

Where are they now? Scotland – 1998 NatWest Trophy giantkillers

2 February 2016 0 comments

By Neil Fissler Craig Wright admits that helping Scotland shock Worcestershire in the NatWest Trophy not only put cricket north […]

Where are they now? Oxfordshire – 1989 Minor Counties champions

26 January 2016 0 comments

By Neil Fissler RUPERT EVANS says Oxfordshire have always had an unwritten rule when it came to selecting their sides […]

Grace Road set to be sponsored

5 January 2016 0 comments

LEICESTERSHIRE are set to have a sponsor for their Grace Road home for the first time in the ground’s 137-year […]

Marcus North column

21 December 2015 1 comment

AFTER Australia dominated the first Test, West Indies will be preparing for Melbourne and the Boxing Day Test at the […]

Looking back – Curtly Ambrose

1 December 2015 0 comments

Garfield Robinson looks back at the destructive career of Curtly Ambrose Wayne Lewis is currently the general secretary of the […]

Phillip Hughes – one year on

1 December 2015 0 comments

Tristan Lavalette revisits the unique and developing talents of a cricketer we lost way too early It has been one […]

My life in cricket – Jacques Du Toit

25 November 2015 0 comments

It was the England women’s captain, Charlotte Edwards, who pointed me in the direction of Leicestershire. I was playing cricket […]

Where are they now? Durham – Minor Counties champions 1980

24 November 2015 0 comments

By Neil Fissler Peter Crane believes that the seeds for Durham becoming a first-class county and joining the County Championship […]

Twenty20 Community Cricket and SCL join forces for new Academy

20 November 2015 0 comments

Not-for-profit company, Twenty20 Community Cricket, has teamed up with fellow Surrey-based education and training provider SCL to offer a great […]

Club Spotlight – Bramhall CC

27 October 2015 0 comments

By Frank Smith WHEN the ECB asked their Twitter followers to name their club’s cricketing heroes, Derek Randall, Harvinder Singh […]

Club spotlight – Harold Wood CC

12 October 2015 0 comments

By Chris Bailey HAROLD Wood is a century-old institution in Essex but the club was forced to, quite literally, rise […]

Room 101 – Holly Colvin

22 September 2015 0 comments

Pushy passengers It really bugs me when people try and jump into the doors on the tube as they are […]

Conditioning for cricket – the exercises you need to know

20 July 2015 0 comments

Gone are the days when cricketers could get by on skill alone. Nowadays, top-level cricket players are just as much […]

Morrant Young Gun: Sam Weller, Oxford MCCU and Kent seamer

14 July 2015 0 comments

Between devising a plan to dismiss Kevin Pietersen and sharing a pre-Ashes drink with Mitchell Johnson, Sam Weller has packed […]

Morrant Young Gun: Jake Doran, Tasmania and Australia Under-19 wicket-keeper

1 July 2015 0 comments

Greg Chappell has compared him to Mike Hussey, Chris Rogers sees similarities with Andrew Strauss, but all Australian tyro Jake Doran wants to be is himself.

Paul Nixon: It’s been great so far but Ballance is a worry