The First Royal Cricketer
I have been delving deep into cricket’s early history in preparation for a book with Peter Oborne on the game’s…
Continue Reading...Pervez Sajjad: A spinner from the Left Bank
Arthur Mailey, the great Australian leg-spinner of the 1920s, was said to “bowl like a millionaire.” His successor, Clarrie Grimmett,…
Continue Reading...Net Profit and Loss
In a long cricket career, which I owe mainly to my ability to turn up on time, I have done…
Continue Reading...In Memory Of Shane Warne
I met Shane Warne only once. It was at Lord’s, but fortunately for me, not in the middle. I was…
Continue Reading...England women’s cricket – the first seven hundred years
The Bodleian Library at Oxford University has a manuscript with the earliest image of English people playing something that looks…
Continue Reading...The VIPs Of Cricket: Scorers
Twenty-five years ago I published my first cricket novel A Tale Of Ten Wickets, describing a cricket match between an…
Continue Reading...One-cap wonders
Over two years ago I introduced ScoreLine readers to two remarkable English Test cricketers, each with one cap. Joseph Emile…
Continue Reading...Let the Children Play Cricket
When COVID and lockdown struck at English cricket at the start of this season, there were real fears that they…
Continue Reading...Ted Dexter Remembers Pakistan
When I watched English county cricket in the early 1960s there was one batsman who regularly filled grounds with spectators….
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