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...

The recent funeral of Denis Law, the last surviving member of what is known in Manchester United folklore as ‘The Holy Trinity’ – the...

“Permission to let the bottom lip wobble, Sir.”   (Nick Daffern)   This is a long-standing joke between me and my old mate, Nick,...

It is an extraordinary fact – one that I was ignorant of until now – that 10% of all England cricketers only played once for their...