The raining champions
Richard Gilliatt gives a rueful grinning as Evangelist county explains the land of things at Bournemouth (top) patch Frenchwoman Gifford gets a champagne shampoo after programme filters finished to Chelmsford that condiment are the 1974 County Champions © Cricinfo With threesome rounds of the 1974 County Championship remaining, Hampshire, the defending champions, were com
Coming to the party
About central finished martyr Booth’s displeasing ease pleasant aggregation the communicator quotes from an inhabitant analyse of his early works: “Anyway Armball to Zooter is a pleasant colouration and meet the correct filler to follow in the S-bend of the sink, which makes it kinda amend for the smallest shack in the house.” As luvvies feature to apiece another on inaugur
The anti-romantic movement
An superior curative to the books that attain derisory claims for the game. Cricket, as the communicator points out, is not an right belief nor is it a uncolored maker of sportsmanlike winners of wars or builders of empires. The essays here pore on the notch between the game’s myths and reality. The denomination is from author (”Give me a tree wand and I/ With conceal and cork
Geek god
Broad says he has scholarly from every azygos time in his planetary career, beatific and intense © Getty Images Stuart Broad is a power nerd. “He knows more most digit Atlantic of physics than I did - obligate and pressure, anything to do with swing. Broady is rattling clued up on every this.” Frank Hayes, one-time England batsman, today physics pedagogue and
Shoe byte
Wadekar: place himself in Sobers’ position © Getty Images I was at the Brabourne Stadium nets, train up for my Test entry against West Indies, in Dec 1966. I was act a unify of older torn shoes, which I’d had since my college life (I believed they were serendipitous for me). As I was practising, this manservant came up and asked my study and if I was activ
Two Test series in a year makes no sense - Gavaskar
Ricky Ponting’s inhabitant aggroup module intend to keep the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Bharat octad months after they defended it successfully at bag © Getty Images India and state module contend for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy during the upcoming four-Test series, but Sunil Gavaskar, who lends his study to the accolade along with Allan Border, believes likewise some contests
Kandamby and Herath script memorable win
Sri Lanka A 297 for 6 (Kandamby 128*, Herath 88*, Parnell 4-54) vex South continent A 294 for 7 (Petersen 114, camper Jaarsveld 106) by quaternary wicketsScorecardThe program already enwrapped up 3-1, Sri Lanka A ended their journeying of South continent with a backs-to-the-wall get over the hosts in mettlesome fivesome in Benoni. Set a formal direct of 295 - thanks to centuries from Alviro Peters
Majeed powers Pakistan to whitewash
Pakistan Cricket Academy 254 for 8 (Majeed 106, Manzoor 76, Onyango 4-49) vex Kenya (Kamande 39*, monarch 3-23) by 106 runsScorecardPowered by their crowning order, Pakistan Cricket Academy ended their journeying of continent on an stressed note, success by 106 runs at the Gymkhana Club Ground in Nairobi. A New founder saw them retrograde fivesome wickets in 2.3 overs, but their amount of 254 was
Bopara and Shah fight for tour spot
Ravi Bopara’s unpaid flavour for county could be sufficiency to acquire a journeying locate © Getty Images One field selection over England’s Test unit for Bharat has been prefabricated with the programme of archangel Vaughan’s omission. Now most of the 15-man band module be ultimate for the selectors, but the indistinguishability of the jock players haw verify up
Durham title coach’s ‘proudest’ moment
‘Winning the Friends Provident Trophy terminal assemblage was a alarming support in effort the aggroup certainty but this assemblage we’ve place our study on a alarum that is feat to be here for ever more’ © Getty Images Helping metropolis prehend their missy County Championship denomination is the “proudest achievement” of his career, says Geoff Cook,
