It was hot so we were glad to be ushered across the tarmac and into the airport terminal. Though to be honest, Bergerac International...

I know of no other ball game than cricket which depends so much on the surface on which it is played. Many sport surfaces nowadays are...

This picture, on pages 12 and 13 of this month’s Cricketer, caught my eye. Always nice to have an official team photo in front of the...

Ireland is a bewitching place. The rugged beauty of the island is a given but it is the inhabitants that fascinate me. They are uniformly...

may break my bones but names will never harm me. Sledging “First, define your terms!” Thus spake (frequently) my English professor from...

Or is it VAR, or maybe TMO? My eight year-old grandson could have drawn a better line than the squiggly one we were presented with on...

Ballance, Curran, Ball – not the most obvious culprits to pay the price for the dismal showing by the England team in the recent Ashes...

Yesterday morning I bumped into Norman Gifford in the Malvern College car park. He told me that he had been asked by his former club,...

Last weekend I went to watch polo. Not my normal cup of tea but as someone told me on the eve of setting out for an extended stay in the...