Test matches
Would W.G. Grace recognise the game of cricket today?
The leisurely long-format game once so dear to the English has been transformed by television and T20 into a highly professionalised global sport that has effectively become football
The titans who shaped Test cricket
Cricket histories are a dangerous genre both for writers and readers. They can be incredibly boring, the dullest of all…
A blueprint for English cricket
No place for the faint of heart, Headingley, and certainly not for some sketchy Sri Lankan batsmen at the back…
A phoenix from the Ashes
Those of us who watched the last day of the final Ashes Test of the present series enjoyed a rare…
