The Old Batsman

It's the morning of 23 August 1791. In the field behind this gate, George Finch, the ninth Earl of Winchilsea, has be...

Given a different life, Jose Mourinho would make a fascinating cricket coach. Last night Manchester United drew 0-0 with Liverpool and had j...

In the mid-1700s, the men who would emerge as the premier batsmen of their age were coming to a realisation. Tom Sueter, the great left-hand...

Bryson DeChambeau is the latest golden hope of American golf, low amateur at the Masters followed by a T-4 finish in his first tournament as...

What was it like to be there for the big one, the shift in the axis of the game that was the change from round arm to overarm bowling? How w...

As a kid I owned the audiobook version - on cassette - of Fred Trueman's salty autobiography Balls Of Fire (double entendre most defini...

Earlier this week, Death Of A Gentleman , Sam Collins' and Jarrod Kimber's film about the eternally sexy subject of cricket administ...