I expect every one of us felt the same, as Rory Burns shuffled across his crease for the first ball of the Ashes series to have his...

Does the revelation that Azeem Rafiq is himself guilty of sending anti-Semitic texts undermine his claims of racism at Yorkshire? I guess...

It was Parents Day at Malvern College. It was a Sunday morning sometime in the early Eighties. The parents had met their sons’ teachers...

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...