One of the great cricket tragedies post-millennia has been the slow disintegration of the West Indian cricket team. Traditionalists and those who followed the great West Indian teams of the 1970s and 1980s have all watched on in disbelief as the once proud cricketing nation slumped to new lows and lost that indomitable identity that […]
One of the things we want to do with this blog is post our thoughts on some of our favourite writers, and Alan Ross is certainly one of those
On 14 July we’ll find out the 2019 ICC World Cup winners at Lord’s. Will it be the hosts? Will it be India who host the next one? It’s going to be a great tournament with plenty of twists and turns, but, as always, there can only be one victor. India are in fact second […]
Sadly this is a story that, as tour books have gone out of fashion, is likely to be at its end
Betopin predicitions for the World Cup for England, South Africa and West Indies.
Back in 1991 West Country journalist Richard Walsh published a poem, written by John Arlott, about a famous century that Somerset opener Harold Gimblett scored on debut in 1935. There were 135 copies of the poem, 110 of them in card covers, numbered and signed by Arlott (who was to pass away later that year). […]
Australian cricket was looking to bounce back after their shock home 1992 World Cup failure, but the 1996 tournament would provide many challenges for them, including some from unexpected sources.
A number of years on from our look at accounts of Ashes series, Martin takes a look at the books that have appeared on the subject of cricketing relations between England and South Africa
In his final feature, Dave wraps up the investigation of important runs in Test cricket and brings the study up to date by looking in detail at 100 or so batsmen who debuted between Justin Langer and Jonny Bairstow.
When this blog opened for business the original intention was for a number of the pages of the existing review section to be moved into it. Unfortunately however no one on the review team raised this with anyone with any technical knowledge and, unfortunately, it would seem that sticking to our plan would be far […]