ALL AUSTRALIAN CRICKET LOVERS ARE FAMILIAR WITH BRADMAN’S ‘THE INVINCIBLES’. LET’S TALK ABOUT ‘THE UNFORTUNATES’. AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS WHO WERE BORN AT THE WRONG TIME. Whilst some players seem to get an armchair ride through to [...]
A Summer Abroad in OZ - Living the Dream? For cricket players and aficionados, Australia resembles something of a holy grail when it comes to the sport. A land of sun, beaches, and cricket as [...]
The Dark Months The UK club cricket season is long, typically running from mid-April to mid-September, so pretty much half the calendar year. Although we all love the game, it can often be a hard [...]
Overseas Pro v’s Overseas Amateur? Having played the first half of my career in The North Staffs and South Cheshire league when it was mandatory for your paid player to be a fully-fledged professional cricketer [...]
Mighty Marnus vs Marvellous Marvan: they both made ducks on their test debuts, but their subsequent test cricket form lines were vastly different. Some international cricketers burst onto the scene with fireworks and fanfare. Others make a [...]
Ben Stokes has become the first England cricketer win the coveted prize since Andrew Flintoff in 2005, but this was not Stokes’ first victory of gargantuan proportion this year. It has truly been the most [...]
Continuing the theme of my previous blog and looking at what makes a great club pro I have trawled through my archives to name the top 3 pro’s I have played with. Now some of [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
