TheHundred: Cricket reinvented or slightly bizarre?
It’s been a decent summer for cricket. My article back in May talked about the bold #ExpressYourself advertising campaign from the ECB targeted at new, younger audiences around the start of the cricket World Cup. This [...]
Professional Cricketers’ Association Awards 2019
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 [...]
Time to forgive Alex Hales?
Over the course of the World Cup and The Ashes, we witnessed one of cricket’s great redemption stories. Ben Stokes went from punching lockers and people to punching the air in celebration as he [...]
Are cricket crowds falling victim to ‘footballisation’?
Cricket has always been a game that embraces tradition. It’s what endears itself to its faithful followers and quite frankly alienates itself from those who don’t enjoy the game. One of the ECB’s missions over [...]
Kumar Sangakkara – The greatest of all-time
The cricketing summer of 2019 has witnessed some truly astonishing moments and in turn has prompted debate over whether some of these moments are the ‘greatest’ in the long history of cricket. Was the World [...]
