It is impossible to know how recreational cricket will emerge from Covid-19 interruption. Regardless, it is essential that the cricketing community acknowledges the need for pragmatism in a time of administrational struggle. Club finances face [...]
Interspersed with discussions about coronavirus, contemporary public conversation is dominated by issues of racial inequality. The callous and avoidable death of George Floyd has become a globally recognised event that has helped highlight racial injustice [...]
England’s recent tour of South Africa saw their world-renowned independent fanbase celebrate their 25th anniversary. Since being affectionately labeled ‘The Barmy Army’ by the media during the 1994-95 Ashes, a once small number of England [...]
Ben Stokes has become the first England cricketer win the coveted prize since Andrew Flintoff in 2005, but this was not Stokes’ first victory of gargantuan proportion this year. It has truly been the most [...]
Five years ago, the world lost one of its most promising young cricketers, Phillip Hughes. A blow from a bouncer pounded his unguarded neck with fatal consequences. Then 63 not out, Hughes was batting for [...]
The summer of 2020 will see the ECB launch the inaugural edition of ‘The Hundred’. The concept is new, different and a hot topic of cricketing conversation, whether you support its existence or not. We [...]
The Roundhouse in London again hosted the Professional Cricketers’ Association awards evening this year. Not for the first time in 2019, Ben Stokes took center stage. The all-rounder picked up the Reg Hayter Cup for [...]
