I'd like to take you down an alternative path, in a parallel universe, you might say. Or, as Robert Frost put it in his poem The Road Not...

Set 398 to win or, more realistically, to bat all day for a draw, at Edgbaston, England succumbed meekly, losing their last six wickets...

Tim Murtagh (5-13) puts England to the sword. It’s not every day of the week that your nephew plays in a Test match at Lord’s (it’s never...

Last week, I had the pleasure of spending an evening with my old friend and former team-mate, Barry Richards. It was a bittersweet...

A King For A Day (Un Giorno Di Regno, if you must know) is an opera by Guiseppe Verdi. I am no opera buff but in many an idle moment I...

You can’t teach people to be lazy; they either have it or they don’t. I cannot remember where I first heard that but it certainly tickled...

On Friday evening, in the company of 7.6 million other viewers, I sat down to watch the televised fourth round match of the FA Cup...

Tim Murtagh (Middlesex and Ireland) is Test cricket’s oldest current player. There is a tradition in British politics that the oldest...

“I would not open windows into men’s souls.” (Queen Elizabeth I) I confess I fail to understand the principle of ‘hate crime’. To hate...