At the start of a season (or tour), batsmen spend many waking hours getting their ‘trigger movements’ properly grooved. Most use this trigger to get themselves going, a sort of prelude to hitting the...
Blinding weather for the 4th odi at Headingley. I travelled up on the train with the Chairman of the ECB and a man in a lizard costume (perhaps his CEO in disguise? A great...
The loss of David Warner and Shane Watson give England a chance of ruining Australia’s remarkable recent one day record – P19 W18. But they will also have to deal better with Mitchell Starc’s...
Against the Australian tourists, I’m leaving the nagging Terry Alderman well, ducking Merv Hughes’s bouncers and ignoring his unintelligible curses when I play and miss. I drive the pace bowler Geoff Lawson (86mph) back...
The days when a batsman strode out before a match with just his bat and gloves and eased a few gentle half volleys into the advertising hoardings (to the chagrin of the advertisers at...
I walk down a quiet, jasmine-scented road in the early- morning sunshine and through the gates of a rambling villa, set in verdant hills, its pleasant, leafy garden spreading out on all sides with...
It takes two months for the groundstaff to prepare a test pitch. It takes half a minute for the captains to read it wrong. Sitting in the dressing room after his mid afternoon dismissal...
Two 37 year olds will play their last test match this week. Two left handers playing for two different countries on opposite sides of the world bonded by one mission: to achieve their Masters...
You can’t win a test in the first session, the saying goes, but you can certainly lose one. It is a theory that has been repetitively applied in this series. Look at the...
They are as baffling to bowl as they are to face but the plain old off-spinner has been rejuvenated by these two deliveries, one rather more legal than the other. The Analyst explains the...
