Last Tuesday, I was a guest of the Professional Cricketers Association at New Road in Worcester at a lunch for former professional...

Don Bradman, Richie Benaud, Barry Richards, Ted Dexter, Martin Crowe and Shane Warne, the half-dozen former cricketers who Mark Nicholas...

Colin Bland of South Africa, generally regarded as the greatest of fielders Cricket has progressed. As a statement of the bleedin’...

Pershore Cricket Club, with the Abbey in the background I don’t watch much cricket these days. An occasional county game, the odd day at...

The memorable lesson to which I refer was not, I hasten to add, taught by me. It was taught – if ‘teach’ can in any way describe what...

“Oh, cruel fate, when wilt thou weary be?”    (Shakespeare)     Jacqueline du Pre The other night, I was watching a moving television...

I remembered the stroke vividly, as if it had been played yesterday. Not one of my own, I hasten to add. I must have played a few...

Eric Clapton is 80. Scarcely believable, not so much the passing of the years, but the fact that he has managed to survive to such a...

“If a man has talent and can’t use it, he has failed.”   Thomas Wolfe (American novelist)   The last bars crashed out and suddenly the...