The Old Batsman

Ashley Giles' first move as England's white ball supremo, or at least the first that cannot be cloaked in the fog of rotation, has b...

Brian Lara was answering some questions on Twitter today. At least, it seemed to be Brian Lara. It's a verified account, and not an obvi...

Like David Bowie's single, it came out of nowhere, and like David Bowie's single it picked up almost universally good notices, partl...

Is that December already? Can it really be five years of bestowing an arbitrary and unheralded gong that its recipients know nothing about? ...

The 90s have gone. Not simply in a literal sense, that's self-evident and happened long ago, but gone in that they have slipped through ...

 Few careers end with novelistic symmetry, however much circumstances urge them to. RT Ponting's at least ended where it began, at the W...

It's one of the great beauties of cricket that a team game can sustain mad, glorious and destructive personal ambition. This thought c...