ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA 7th September 2025 at the Rose Bowl The Rose Bowl Southampton On Sunday last, I took my wife and two sons to watch...

VJ Day in New York Today, Friday 15th August, celebrations will be held to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan finally...

Last Tuesday, I was a guest of the Professional Cricketers Association at New Road in Worcester at a lunch for former professional...

Don Bradman, Richie Benaud, Barry Richards, Ted Dexter, Martin Crowe and Shane Warne, the half-dozen former cricketers who Mark Nicholas...

Colin Bland of South Africa, generally regarded as the greatest of fielders Cricket has progressed. As a statement of the bleedin’...

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...