What makes the ultimate club pro?
It’s a question often debated in the clubhouse and pub by cricketers across the land. Those that have played a good standard of club cricket will have played with and against hundreds of overseas pro’s [...]
Five Years On: Phil Hughes Remembered
Five years ago, the world lost one of its most promising young cricketers, Phillip Hughes. A blow from a bouncer pounded his unguarded neck with fatal consequences. Then 63 not out, Hughes was batting for [...]
Throw away the Kooky jar, lets spice things up with a Duke!
The end of another English summer As the bat and ball are put away after another exhilarating English summer of cricket, batsmen around the world can sleep easy again – at least for another six [...]
Understanding The Hundred: the what, not the why
The summer of 2020 will see the ECB launch the inaugural edition of ‘The Hundred’. The concept is new, different and a hot topic of cricketing conversation, whether you support its existence or not. We [...]
Chris Silverwood – the ‘outstanding candidate’ who fought off the very best
"Test cricket is really important to us in this country. We haven’t neglected Test cricket for white-ball cricket but the focus has definitely been more on that side and we just need to redress that [...]
TheHundred: Cricket reinvented or slightly bizarre?
It’s been a decent summer for cricket. My article back in May talked about the bold #ExpressYourself advertising campaign from the ECB targeted at new, younger audiences around the start of the cricket World Cup. This [...]
Professional Cricketers’ Association Awards 2019
The Roundhouse in London again hosted the Professional Cricketers’ Association awards evening this year. Not for the first time in 2019, Ben Stokes took center stage. The all-rounder picked up the Reg Hayter Cup for [...]
Time to forgive Alex Hales?
Over the course of the World Cup and The Ashes, we witnessed one of cricket’s great redemption stories. Ben Stokes went from punching lockers and people to punching the air in celebration as he [...]
Are cricket crowds falling victim to ‘footballisation’?
Cricket has always been a game that embraces tradition. It’s what endears itself to its faithful followers and quite frankly alienates itself from those who don’t enjoy the game. One of the ECB’s missions over [...]
Kumar Sangakkara – The greatest of all-time
The cricketing summer of 2019 has witnessed some truly astonishing moments and in turn has prompted debate over whether some of these moments are the ‘greatest’ in the long history of cricket. Was the World [...]