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Mighty Marnus vs Marvellous Marvan: they both made ducks on their test debuts, but their subsequent test cricket form lines were vastly different. Some international cricketers burst onto the scene with fireworks and fanfare. Others make a [...]

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 [...]

Continuing the theme of my previous blog and looking at what makes a great club pro I have trawled through my archives to name the top 3 pro’s I have played with. Now some of [...]

It’s a question often debated in the clubhouse and pub by cricketers across the land. Those that have played a good standard of club cricket will have played with and against hundreds of overseas pro’s [...]

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 end of another English summer As the bat and ball are put away after another exhilarating English summer of cricket, batsmen around the world can sleep easy again – at least for another six [...]

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 [...]

"Test cricket is really important to us in this country. We haven’t neglected Test cricket for white-ball cricket but the focus has definitely been more on that side and we just need to redress that [...]