Not all modern writers revere Neville Cardus in the way their predecessors did. In this post Martin adds his two penn’orth to a debate that is doubtless going to run and run
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After Australia and South Africa we take things slightly out of chronological order by looking at accounts of Test series between England and India
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
Sadly this is a story that, as tour books have gone out of fashion, is likely to be at its end
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). […]
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
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 […]
This year’s Wisden is as good as ever, but there is a concern about one of our favourite parts of the most famous annual in sport