We all know who’s turning the tap on and off for the drip, drip, drip of the ‘Partygate’ scandal. It comes as no surprise to any of us...

Here’s an interesting fact. In the recent Test match in Sydney, no fewer than 13 sixes were struck. Go back 60 years to the equivalent...

A personal epigraph Speak as you find. Personally, I found Raymond (never Ray) Illingworth approachable and interesting. Get these older...

I expect every one of us felt the same, as Rory Burns shuffled across his crease for the first ball of the Ashes series to have his...

Does the revelation that Azeem Rafiq is himself guilty of sending anti-Semitic texts undermine his claims of racism at Yorkshire? I guess...

It was Parents Day at Malvern College. It was a Sunday morning sometime in the early Eighties. The parents had met their sons’ teachers...

TIM MURTAGH The list of former captains of Middlesex CCC is long and illustrious. The first, in 1864, was Teddy Walker, an old Harrovian...

At the conclusion of the 1960 county cricket season, Tom Graveney was sacked as Gloucestershire’s captain. Not a little peeved and...

Barry Richards buttonholed me one day whilst I was writing his biography. “Tell me,” he demanded, “What’s the point of a leg bye?” Hmm…....