Cricket

The second division of the Championship is the poor relative of the cricket competitions meriting a wrap-up paragraph at the rear of the sports pages. One of these reasons for this is that a second division side can  still complete in the white ball competitions, indeed all 4 finalists in the [...]

When Bob Tickler called me to say he was having  dinner with Ted Dexter in Nice and would I like to join them I virtually set off for Gatwick straightway. Ted Dexter: the debonair, swashbuckling batsman that put the West Indian attack of Wes Hall and Charlie Griffith to the sword for an [...]

Correct me if I am wrong but if England win on Sunday this will be the only World Cup trophy they have won twice. We have certainly mastered the grammar of T20 cricket and much is due to Andrew Strauss who put the white ball game  high up the priority list. When he became Middlesex captain he [...]

Last night in a pub in Hove the new head coach Mark Davis and director of cricket Keith Greenfield of Sussex CCC participated in an informal gathering with our Players Club. We are a social bunch and it does not require too much excuse to hold an event. I will not go into too much detail as firstly [...]

One of the biggest issues in South African cricket is the quota system to develop non-white cricketers. Initially I took the view that a team should pick its best side but being here, reading the local press and and appreciating the political culture, my position has shifted. One must remember the [...]

In an attritional day, after the fireworks of the previous, Amla played a captain’s innings to keep South Africa in the game. On a  pitch that offered the bowler of pace, swing or spin no succour, England must have rued the two chances of catching Amla that Anderson and Compton failed to [...]