Cricket

Australia are back atop the rankings after thrashing England and winning 2-1 in South Africa. They have a new crop of youngsters like Steve Smith, a rejuvenated Mitchell Johnson, but much of the credit must go to work off the pitch. Rodney Marsh replaced John Inverarity as Chairman of Selectors and [...]

Watching England contrive lo lose a ODI they dominated last night, I tuned into an enjoyable conversation between Sir Ian Botham and Courtly Ambrose. They discussed Antiguan cricket, which once produced Viv Richards, Richie Richardson, Andy Roberts and Ambrose. Those were the days when the Windies [...]

As your new cricket correspondent I would like to come up with something new on the debacle. The best I can do is to highlight two areas which have in my view attracted insufficient attention: captaincy and support. Over the past 25 years there has been ample evidence of our best cricketers broken [...]