Friday, 31 July 2015

Darren Stevens has a day out

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As the last county championship season faded out into autumn, I went to the Ageas Bowl to watch Hampshire play Kent. Hampshire were as good ...
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Monday, 22 June 2015

Cricket at Avebury

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'No one knows who they were, or... 'What they were doing...' So sang Spinal Tap of the druids, and driving past the neolithi...
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Thursday, 18 June 2015

Alastair Cook: the [relative] evil of banality

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Nine thousand runs, 27 hundreds, 114 caps; more runs and more centuries than any other Englishman, the eternal Gooch eclipsed... We must sta...
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Saturday, 21 March 2015

KP: The One Who Knocks

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Amid the power and the glory of Breaking Bad came the moment in season four when Walter White at last articulated to Skylar, his panicking ...
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Friday, 13 March 2015

Sylvester Clarke: Unforgiven

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Steve Waugh could feel the will of his Somerset team-mates "disintegrating" a full week before it happened. By the time the player...
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Thursday, 1 January 2015

The Seventh Annual OB Innings Of The Year Award: Put Out Your Bats

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At the start of the English season in 2009 a magazine asked me to go down to Lord's, where Middlesex were having a press day. It was o...
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Friday, 19 December 2014

Selectors' notes

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Yesterday in (or is it at?) the Big Bash, Kevin Pietersen stepped back deep in his crease to make an angle and hit a delivery from Shaun Tai...
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