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The Aussies are back

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 [...]

May 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

See what happens when you look under a cricketing stone

Yesterday, without much pleasure in the act, I registered my disquiet at the impending re-appointment of Peter Moores as England cricket head coach – primarily based upon my conviction that, generally-speaking, there’s little to be gained from ‘going backwards’. I’m fond of the word [...]

April 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

English cricket – the concerns remain

Peter Moores will be named as England’s head coach for the second time this morning. I’m not denying his credentials – he recently steered Lancashire to the their first county title in nearly eighty years – but in my view this is a hugely negative step for England cricket, whose [...]

April 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

West Indian cricket

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 [...]

March 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Ditching the dispensible pilot

One of my favourite dinner party table tales concerns a distant relative who, in an important meeting with a group of European financiers, turned to his tax expert and asked for his view of an aspect of German tax law. Said gentleman respectfully declined to express one, saying that he didn’t [...]

February 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Rehashing the Ashes

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 [...]

January 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

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