Tag: Viv Richards

A closer look at Harry Brook’s Test record after latest overseas masterclass

9 December 2024 0 comments

Harry Brook added to his burgeoning reputation with scores of 123 and 55 as England routed New Zealand in Wellington. […]

Hameed fires for Littleborough in Lancs League

21 July 2024 0 comments

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE SKIPPER and former England opener Haseeb Hameed was in action again for Littleborough in the Lancashire League, taking wickets […]

West Indies need action not sympathy

14 July 2024 0 comments

By Phil Walker Raw: Mikyle Louis showed promise at Lord’s on his first-class debut outside of the Caribbean On some […]

Louis Kimber – record breaker

30 June 2024 0 comments

Remember the name, as the saying goes. Because apart from hardcore county cricket fans, not that many would have been […]

Windies rally to a different tune

16 June 2024 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Great unifiers in team sports can be worth their weight in trophies, which is why supporters of […]

Finding a second home

26 May 2024 0 comments

ANNIE CHAVE At the end of the 2020 season when, after 15 years playing and coaching on the county circuit, […]

Historic club Leeds Caribbean gets a facelift

21 April 2024 0 comments

By Guy Williams Founded by the Windrush generation in 1948, Leeds Caribbean CC was the first West Indian cricket club […]

Lightning strikes again and again…

13 August 2023 0 comments

Scott Oliver on a time when Allan Donald lit up the league with Rishton Friday night, eve of the match, […]

When young Tugga dared to bounce out king Viv

23 July 2023 0 comments

Scott Oliver on when a future Aussie legend sent Sir Viv Richards tumbling in the Lancashire League In acertain corner […]

The Definitive Devon Malcolm

16 July 2023 0 comments

The former England fast bowler looks back on his most hair-raising spells The Boycott scalp Yorkshire XI v Yorkshire Select […]

Ambrose made one almighty impression

28 May 2023 0 comments

Scott Oliver lifts the lid on international stars rubbing shoulders with recreational players. This week it is West Indies’ legend […]

Bat break presents a great opportunity

3 March 2022 0 comments

By Dave Swanton The Village Bat Company was founded in 2020 in Essex by two cricketing friends, Freddie Chatt and […]

Australia retain Ashes after smashing pitiful England on day three

28 December 2021 0 comments

England surrendered the Ashes in embarrassing fashion in Melbourne, blitzed for 68 all out in their second innings to slump […]

When Goochie and Essex became the kings of King’s Road

20 June 2021 0 comments

By Richard Edwards Big stage: Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge hosted an Essex game in 1980 IT has been party time on […]

TIME TO SUPPORT ROB’S ONLINE GEM

30 May 2021 0 comments

THE GRUMBLER Probing the right areas of the county game Stats life: Shane Warne and Steve Waugh have both proved […]

Capel’s Caribbean moment ended Windies’ proud reign

6 September 2020 0 comments

By Richard Edwards Sorely missed: David Capel will go down as a Northants legend PICTURE: PA Images DAVID Capel’s passing […]

Bowling to Smith is no big secret, he has even toldEngland how to

8 September 2019 0 comments

Damp squib: The much-vaunted joust between Jofra Archer and Smith never materialised in the first innings Derek Pringle enters the […]

MARTIN JOHNSON

28 July 2019 0 comments

AN ASHES BORE FEST TO HAVE DELIGHTED BARNACLE The men’s World Cup final was, by all accounts, too much for […]

MORAL OF CRITIQUE IS NOW IN FAVOUR OF HACKS

7 July 2019 0 comments

MARTIN JOHNSON Once upon a time, when an irate cricketer wanted to confront a pundit who’d been uncomplimentary about them, […]

RICHARDS HAD TO KNEEL WHEN COLLIS WAS KING

31 May 2019 0 comments

Garfield Robinson recalls an astonishing World Cup final day at Lord’s when the junior partner overshadowed the greatest attacking batsman […]

Don’t burden this current West Indies with the past

1 February 2019 0 comments

Isabelle Westbury cautions that misconceptions about the modern Caribbean game may be affecting our judgment of the progress made there […]

Thisara: Proteas couldn’t handle Test-style attack

10 August 2018 0 comments

By Jon Couch Key scalp: Suranga Lakmal dismissed David Miller – the wicket which ultimately halted South Africa’s 11-match winning […]

Johnson column: Like royal weddings, things won’t be the same now

30 May 2018 0 comments

Martin Johnson on how cricket is just as prone to modernisation as Harry and Meghan

Pringle column: ECB may still offer a pathway for universities

17 May 2018 0 comments

Derek Pringle focusses on the state of university cricket after eleven players from Anglia Ruskin were named in Cambridge MCCU’s team to play Essex

ECB MAY YET STILL OFFER A PATHWAY FOR UNIS

11 May 2018 0 comments

DEREK PRINGLE @derekpringle Talent pool: Michael Atherton is among a coveted list of players who hailed from Cambridge University PICTURE: […]