The life of the England captain is similar, in one way, to being the mother of a growing family. There are so many people seeking your attention – kids/teammates, husbands/chief executives, teachers/coaches – that...
Barbados comes alive through the eyes of its greatest cricketers Barbados was once famous for the three W’s: Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott, the fabulous Fifties cricketers. More recently, the three R’s...
A decade on from the Boxing Day tsunami, Simon Hughes warms to an Indian Ocean island restored in part by the healing power of cricket ‘Now, the green shoots of peace and prosperity are...
MS Dhoni is fascinating. He makes light of the pressure he is obviously under as captain of India. He hardly does any practice before the match and takes barely a cursory glance at the...
‘A brilliant insight into a batsman’s fragile existence,’ (The Independent.) When Australia’s Shane Watson rang up Simon Hughes late one night to ask him for his advice on why it was that he...
Cricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime. From its earliest origins in the sixteenth century (or an early version played by shepherds called creag in the 1300s), through the formation of the MCC...
‘A brilliant commentary on the life of a county cricketer.’ (Mike Selvey, Guardian) ‘Terrific.’ (Harold Pinter) This is Simon Hughes’s best-selling memoir about the county game that won the William Hill Sports Book of...
Simon Hughes looks at the latest in test match, one-day international and county cricket, including frame-by-frame pictorial acconts of batting and bowling techniques, past golden moments from English Cricket Board archives, interviews with today’s...
This is a wry, acerbic and very funny trip around the world offering real insights into national and cricketing cultures while exploring male attitudes to sex, love and marriage and ultimately revealing what constitutes...
No other sport has a fixture like the Ashes. From the early 1880s the rivalry between these two great sporting nations has captured the public imagination and made sporting legends of its stars. Commentator,...
