Category: Sport

The country’s top teams will contest the one-off final, starting at Lord’s on Wednesday, to decide the Championship winners The Bob Willis Trophy final, to be contested at Lord’s starting on Wednesday, has been given extra validity by the presence of Essex and Somerset. Jason Kerr, Somerset’s first-team coach, sums the situation up neatly: “The […]

Sussex, Northamptonshire and Leicestershire secured their places in the last eight of the T20 Blast this week Ball one: breaking newsThis column does not do news, but if you haven’t tracked down the T20 Blast’s quarter-finals to be played on Thursday 1 October, here they are: Notts Outlaws v Leicestershire FoxesSurrey v Kent SpitfiresGloucestershire v […]

Prizes go to Michael Holding for showing why Black Lives Matter and the BBC for bringing cricket back to the masses At first, after the unbeatable thrills of 2019, the men’s international cricket season of 2020 looked like being an anticlimax. Then, as one nation after another locked down, it looked like not happening at […]

England’s return to international cricket after a six-month absence proved a memorable one, as they took up where they had left off in the World Twenty20 and thrashed West Indies by 47 runs at Derby. England’s total of 163 for eight was anchored by a 49-ball 62 from Tammy Beaumont, who made the most of […]

An unspectacular concrete strip in the southern highlands of NSW has become a battleground for memorabilia fetishists and property developers People love to feel close to notable figures from the past. Here is the spot in the cafe where Picasso used to sit. This is the bar where Hemingway drank. This is the house where […]

Heather Knight says England Women’s return to international cricket has been “a long time coming” as they finally take to the field against West Indies in the first of five T20s at Derby on Monday. With India and then South Africa dropping out of a planned September tri-series because of the Covid pandemic, there were […]

Desert Island Discs is older than one-day cricket, Test Match Special and covered pitches. It was born on the BBC Forces Programme in 1942, the same year as Mike Brearley, one of the 20 or so cricketers to have been stranded on the island with eight records, a book and a luxury, the works of […]