Frank Tyson in his pomp

Frank Tyson, the former England fast bowler, has died in a Queensland hospital at the age of 85. It is odd that the two English bowlers most...

It was 40 years ago today: Chris Balderstone's double

View image | gettyimages.com Chris Balderstone was a member of Leicestershire's hugely successful cricket team of the 1970s and even pl...

Brian Close: The greatest captain England hardly had

View image | gettyimages.com Brian Close, the former England cricket captain, died today aged 84. He played his first test in 1949 as an 18...

Building up Mason Crane

View image | gettyimages.com This blog has long taken an interest in the career of the Yorkshire leg spinner Adil Rashid . He will either m...

Understanding Ben Stokes

View image | gettyimages.com Barney Ronay reminds us that Ben Stokes is not 'the next Freddie Flintoff': In February Paul Collingw...

c Bairstow b Willey

Australia vs England (50 overs), Melbourne, 8 December 1979 England vs New Zealand (50  overs), Chester-le-Street, 20 June 2015 If you rea...

Chris Lewis is a free man

The former Leicetershire and England cricketer has been released from prison halfway through a 13-year sentence for drug smuggling, I find t...

Happy Birthday Derek Underwood

How can one of the sporting heroes of my youth be 70? It's ridiculous. Anyway, happy birthday to Derek Underwood. Along with Jim Laker a...

Bob Appleyard (1924-2015) - a unique cricketer

View image | gettyimages.com When I blogged a list of the 10 oldest surviving England test cricketers last month, I said that I must write...

England's cricketers are not the problem: it's the people who run the game

View image | gettyimages.com Nich Hoult writes harshly bur fairly about England's disarray against Australia today: At the moment it f...

10 oldest surviving England test cricketers

View image | gettyimages.com Cricinfo has a list of the oldest surviving test cricketers. I have extracted this list of the 10 oldest Engl...

How England can win the cricket world cup

As the rain fell at Bristol this morning, Vic Marks, Michael Vaughan and Graeme Swann explained what is wrong with England's approach to...

Wellington Shoots

Recently seen on Midsomer Murders , this is Wellington College near Crowthorne in Berkshire. It stood in as a dodgy university with people i...

Holt, Who Goes There?

At first glance it's like coming across a small town, high in High Leicestershire on a hilltop above Medbourne. This is Nevill Holt, and...