TIM MURTAGH The list of former captains of Middlesex CCC is long and illustrious. The first, in 1864, was Teddy Walker, an old Harrovian...

At the conclusion of the 1960 county cricket season, Tom Graveney was sacked as Gloucestershire’s captain. Not a little peeved and...

Barry Richards buttonholed me one day whilst I was writing his biography. “Tell me,” he demanded, “What’s the point of a leg bye?” Hmm…....

A teaching colleague of mine was fond of clichés. So fond that he could not pass one by without saying hello. For one reason or another,...

You have been pre-warned! Language is a living, breathing, mutating organism. Over time, its meaning and its usage are subject to...

Currently the Tour de France is taking place. I imagine they are somewhere in the Alps at the moment, the steep climbs and vertiginous...

It was bizarre strolling around the cavernously empty departure hall for Le Tunnel Sous La Manche, normally heaving with British...

The process of attending a Test match under the current circumstances was long and arduous. The ticket ballot, the e-mails of...

My eye was caught the other evening by a programme on television, The United Way. It was a potted history of Manchester United since the...