6 minFRANCE 2021It was bizarre strolling around the cavernously empty departure hall for Le Tunnel Sous La Manche, normally heaving with British...
4 minEDGBASTONThe process of attending a Test match under the current circumstances was long and arduous. The ticket ballot, the e-mails of...
5 minKING ERICMy eye was caught the other evening by a programme on television, The United Way. It was a potted history of Manchester United since the...
7 minTHE SECRET CRICKETERI have just finished reading The Secret Cricketer by….. well, that is the point, isn’t it? I imagine there are a few current first-class...
4 minMURTAGH ON MURTAGHEngland 85 all out (Tim Murtagh 5-13) Lord’s, 24th June 2019 The Edrich Stand was full of Murtaghs. That is not entirely true but not...
30 minFINEST CRICKET STROKESSome strokes, when executed correctly, are inherently more aesthetic and pleasing on the eye than others. Quite why this should be so has...
4 minTECHNOLOGYTreading water? The Colossus computer 1943 We are told that the pace of life today is accelerating exponentially, at a speed that is...
6 minNO NEED FOR DRSJOHN HOLDER RAISES HIS FINGER AT THE ECB I sat bolt upright. An unusual occurrence in that soporific hour before bedtime, watching the...
4 minORADOURComply or Resist? Oradour, the name of the village in the middle of South-West France, has an eerie tone about it. The onomatopoeic sound...