All posts tagged "sport"
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Features and Columns
/ 8 years agoDerek Pringle column – Bowling the Yanks over with a cricket metaphor
Once a byword for fairness and moral certitude, cricket was used to illustrate the exact opposite by Eddie Jones, England‘s rugby...
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News
/ 8 years agoMicrophone gimmicks are sending out wrong signals
Joshua Peck suggests player and stump mics cause more controversy than they are worth Kevin Pietersen was recently fined 5,000 Australian...
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International News
/ 8 years agoFormer England bowler Sidebottom announces retirement
(Photo: Getty Images) By Harvey Burgess Former England bowler Ryan Sidebottom has announced that he will retire from cricket at the...
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Features and Columns
/ 8 years agoDerek Pringle column – Not many tweaks needed to keep Tests relevant
One of the slogans coming from England’s new captain and his deputy, is their mission to make people “fall in love...
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Features and Columns
/ 8 years agoDerek Pringle column – Capturing the soul of cricket and its legends
Has there been a game or sport more celebrated by art than cricket? From the 17th century country house artists painting...
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International News
/ 8 years agoTaibu plotting Zimbabwe revival… from Merseyside
Jamie Bowman locates a former Test captain who has chosen an unlikely base to start an overhaul of his country’s cricket...
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International News
/ 8 years agoHeyhoe Flint, the pioneer with a twinkle in her eye…
Alison Mitchell offers a personal memory of one of cricket‘s most important and respected figures who died earlier this month Baroness...
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International News
/ 8 years agoThakur’s exit could pave the way for a better game
Tim Wigmore on how the Supreme Court’s decision to remove two of cricket’s most powerful men can herald a positive change...
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International News
/ 8 years agoEbony-Jewel Rainford-Brent
The cricketing career of Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent contains many notable achievements, such as the first black woman to play for the England...
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Features and Columns
/ 8 years agoPaul Nixon column – Never get too high on praise or low on criticism
The media will always have a role to play in cricket. Whether it’s good things being written about you and your...
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International News
/ 8 years agoWe always wanted to take cricket back home, says Najam Sethi
By Tahir Ibn Manzoor The Pakistan Cricket Board, especially former chairman Naseem Ashraf, must take credit for floating the idea of...
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International News
/ 9 years agoZimbabwe running scared but a dose of meritocracy would serve them so well
By Tim Wigmore Zimbabwe‘s performances in their two Tests against New Zealand were actually less gruesome than many had envisaged, and...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoPeter Hayter column – Cheating Amir will be judged in house of Lord’s
The people of Taunton have spoken. The people of Hove will get their chance in the coming days. But the first...
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International News
/ 9 years agoThere is more to Gayle than the bling and the bravado
Alison Mitchell meets the Universe Boss and discovers a man still trying to understand why he has been engulfed in controversy...
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International News
/ 9 years agoUniverse Boss must let real bat do talking from now on
Derek Pringle is always prepared to listen to players who go off-message but feels that Chris Gayle has gone too far...
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Club Cricket
/ 9 years agoLondon youngsters battle it out at Lord’s in disability cricket championships
Teams from across the Capital battled it out at the home of cricket on Friday in the Lord’s Taverners Disability Cricket...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoDerek Pringle column – North v South… It’s not so cut and dry for me
It is difficult to know whether the North v South one-day series stated for next March is an innovation, a throwback,...
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Club Cricket
/ 9 years agoICP Young Gun – Ollie McGee
English cricket has produced its fair share of world-class left-arm spinners in recent years, and Durham and Northumberland hotshot Ollie McGee...
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News
/ 9 years agoCricket Fans Love More Than Just Cricket
Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, with an estimated 2.5 billion fans. Only soccer is more popular...
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News
/ 9 years agoExpert Guide to Profitable Betting on T20 Cricket World Cup
Cricket buffs from around the world brace themselves to see the sixes raining the subcontinent as T20 world cup arrives. Since...
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International News
/ 9 years agoA Brief History of Gambling in Cricket
That some cricket fans enjoy betting on the sport should come as little surprise to anyone. After all, it’s been going...
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International News
/ 9 years agoWe’ll miss Brendon McCullum…
Derek Pringle looks at the spectacular career of a New Zealand icon and his legacy in international cricket Brendon McCullum is...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Scotland – 1998 NatWest Trophy giantkillers
By Neil Fissler Craig Wright admits that helping Scotland shock Worcestershire in the NatWest Trophy not only put cricket north of...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoWhere are they now? Oxfordshire – 1989 Minor Counties champions
By Neil Fissler RUPERT EVANS says Oxfordshire have always had an unwritten rule when it came to selecting their sides –...
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Latest News
/ 9 years agoGrace Road set to be sponsored
LEICESTERSHIRE are set to have a sponsor for their Grace Road home for the first time in the ground’s 137-year history....
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