What is momentum anyway?
The m-word gets thrown about a lot in cricket, but what does it really mean?
View ArticleT20 vulnerable to Performance Enhancing Drugs
The game's shortest format can learn lessons from baseball in particular when it comes to the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs
View ArticleBarry Richards, sporting tragedy and human suffering
Although he only played in four Tests prior to the sporting boycott of South Africa, Barry Richards still managed to confirm his greatness. However, the tragedy of his lost international career must be...
View ArticleIn name and deed?
Modern bat manufacturers seem to be going to increasingly absurd lengths in coming up with exotic nouns in which batsmen can attempt to locate idealised versions of themselves
View ArticleThe incredible legacy of WG Grace
In the space of eight days in 1876, WG Grace scored 839 runs, including two triple hundreds. He shaped the game we know today, inventing technique and influencing bowling
View ArticleAnderson, greatness and England's lost generation
Over the course of England's next series, James Anderson should become the 26th bowler to take 300 Test wickets. That no Englishman has reached 400 - or 10,000 runs with the bat - is indicative of how...
View ArticleGayle forces the pace of change
Clad in his space-garb, his gold pads and his gridiron helmet, shoulders rippling under his muscle shirt, Chris Gayle is an implacable object, driving cricket forwards, challenging the world to produce...
View ArticleOf unwritten laws and moral compasses
Cricket's relationship with its rules is a constantly evolving flirtation, unlike in golf, say, where things are more cut and dried
View ArticleThe philosopher captain
If captaincy was not regarded as an art before Brearley, it was after he had gone. His tenure may have been brief, but his impact endures still
View ArticleWe'll miss Mitch
Risky or not, Johnson is thrilling in his unpredictability. More's the pity we won't see him this Ashes
View ArticleThe day I became a semi-international
Playing against the Japan national side in London on a cold April day is a story bound to be told several times over
View ArticleThe legend of Cardus lives on
Neville Cardus' writing is alive, full of daring and almost novelistic observation. Cricket writing owes him a debt of gratitude
View ArticleThe divine madness of Kevin Pietersen
Players who compel you to watch them and be engaged in the game, when absent, stir a yearning in the spectator that has nothing to do with team loyalty
View ArticleIs cricket losing its sense of judgement?
Fans or experts' comments dismissing a player on the basis of a few low scores are in stark contrast to the game's natural rhythm
View ArticlePick 'em early?
Prodigies, like Yorkshire have nurtured, emerge with the expectation of something big. But really all they offer then is promise, which can be fulfilled or lost
View ArticleEngland do it pragmatically
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that there is a deep statistical conviction behind their current method
View ArticleDhoni's feel for cricket
India's captain has an instinctive sense of the rhythm of the game; he hears its heartbeat acutely
View ArticleThe fielding dog and other tales
There is a deep quirkiness to some of the early reporting on cricket - and not just because the world was so different back then
View ArticleThe Shane Watson gamble
His Test stats are a puny return for all of his brawn but Australia's new coach seems to have more faith in him than most
View ArticleIt's the humans, silly
The problem with the DRS lies not in the technology but in the way the system is used and administered
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