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Planning for the future

Planning for the future

It is surely evident to selectors when a player is in the twilight of his career. He can’t go on forever and it would be unwise not to prepare for the day ...

Twenty20 - it’s a batsman’s game

Twenty20 - it’s a batsman’s game

The Friend’s Provident Twenty20 is underway, with most counties taking their lead from the IPL and signing a high profile player. Adam Gilchrist is appearing for Middlesex, Andrew Symonds has gone to ...

County Championship 2010: Yorkshire defying the odds

County Championship 2010: Yorkshire defying the odds

Ask most Yorkshire supporters at the beginning of this season what the prospects for the Club were in the County Championship and you would have received a gloomy answer. The pundits too ...


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Time for a new Cook?

Alastair Cook’s recent woes with the bat in an England shirt have been well documented. Despite a promising debut as [...]


Fair weather formula

The Duckworth-Lewis method has been in operation since 1996 but still comes in for criticism and calls for alteration. Paul [...]


Tendulkar breaks another record

Already the holder of the most Test and ODI runs, the most Test and ODI centuries and the highest ODI [...]


Pakistan sink as Anderson runs riot

England put in an emphatic display in the first Test against Pakistan at Trent Bridge to secure a comfortable 354 [...]


International captains – how tough is it?

Legendary spinner Derek Underwood is credited with saying that ‘a county captain’s lot is not a happy one’. Few would [...]


Will cricket ever see another Muralitharan?

Cricket bid farewell its greatest wicket-taker last week and how its greatest wicket-taker bid farewell to cricket. Sitting on 799 [...]


The Cricket Blog meets Andrew Flintoff

The Cricket Blog meets Andrew Flintoff at the Daytona go-kart track at Sandown racecourse. He is a brand ambassador for [...]