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IPL Overkill Sending Cricket's Priorities into Limbo

19 April 2012

Sat in front of the television yesterday evening watching Kolkata Knight Riders canter to victory over the Kings XI Punjab in their Indian Premier League tie at Mohali, I was overcome by an uneasy blend of disillusion and boredom. It was a feeling that crept up on me subtly over the course of the ma...
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Life After 18 All Out: Keep Faith in Durham University on Cricket’s Steepest Learning Curve

11 April 2012

There can be no escaping the fact that 18 all out, in any cricketing context, is pretty disastrous. Unfortunately, such a fate befell Durham University – a team that holds a very special place in my heart – on the morning of Easter Sunday, the final day of their first-class fixture against Durha...
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Positivity the Key: Resurgent England Batsmen Back with a Vengeance

22 February 2012

So, we are seemingly back where we were at the start of the year. England have flattered to deceive and then, just as quickly, deceived to flatter once more. An ignominious Test whitewash at the hands of Pakistan followed by a glorious one-day whitewashing of the same opponents is a truly remarkable...
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A Breath of Fresh Eire: Ireland’s Refreshing Pursuit of Test Cricket

7 February 2012

England’s capitulation at the hands of Pakistan over the past month has had something of a comforting familiarity about it. Granted, middle-order collapses and three-day drubbings are distant hallmarks of the nineties – a decade far removed from the current standing of Andy Flower’s charges �...
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Something Wicked this Way Comes: Can David Warner Bring Australia Back to the Summit of World Cricket?

18 January 2012

It has taken just two days of Test cricket, but the harsh heat of the Dubai desert has already woken England from their smug winter hibernation. With a career-best seven-wicket haul, Saeed Ajmal – he of the irritating mannerisms, jerky bowling action and baffling pre-match boasts – has swiftly b...
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The Perils of Pakistan: England's Cricketers Await Next Test

5 January 2012

For England’s world-leading Test cricketers, a Christmas break did not mean shelter from the limelight. From a plaudit-drenched night at the BBC Sports Personality Awards, where they came away with the team gong, to Alastair Cook’s farmyard wedding to childhood sweetheart Alice Hunt, Andy Flower...
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Is the One-Day Series Taking the Gloss off England's Ashes Victory?

26 January 2011

Less than one month ago England produced a scintillating display to beat Australia by an innings and 83 runs and in the process won an Ashes series Down Under for the first time in 27 years. Having outplayed Ricky Ponting's men over the five match series, England's players celebrated long into the n...
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Ryan Airs Ashes Verdict

2 December 2010

Making his debut for Yorkshire in 1997, left-arm seamer Ryan Sidebottom was handed his first Test opportunity with England in 2001. However, it wasn't until 2007 that Ryan earned his second Test cap and became an established part of the bowling lineup. In 2010 he lifted the World Twenty20 trophy wit...
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Can England Hit the Ground Running at The Gabba?

22 November 2010

After all the warm-up matches, trash talk and bullish predictions, world cricket is finally set for the Ashes curtain-raiser at Brisbane on Thursday.As is usually the case before an Anglo-Antipodean clash, one side is settled, confident and ready to retain the urn. The other is in poor form, has a c...
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Should Pakistan be Banned from International Cricket?

21 September 2010

A largely dismal summer of international cricket in England, plagued by spot-fixing scandals off the field and mismatches on it, has ended on a really sour note. After the third one-day international last week at The Oval, the cricket descended into bitter finger-pointing. Ijaz Butt, the chairman of...
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