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Category: Cricket writers
Cricket past, present and future on the agenda for Engel and Kynaston
Guardian cricket correspondent Matthew Engel and historian David Kynaston will be talking about cricket past, present and future next month. Engel is …
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Cricket Writers’ Club name Mitchell first woman chair
Broadcaster Alison Mitchell is the first woman chair of the Cricket Writers’ Club. Test Match Special regular Mitchell made history when she became …
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ICC offer workshops and $500 prize to young cricket writers
The Cricket Writers Club have been tasked by the ICC to deliver a series of workshops for aspiring young cricket writers during the forthcoming World …
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Watching with my heroes: a tale of a journeyman cricketer
Stuart Simmonds may not have made it as a top cricketer but his tales with ball and bat make for an entertaining book, reviewed by NICK TOWNSEND …
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The changing face of TV coverage and the Ashes
As BT Sport prepare to broadcast the Ashes series live for the first time, PHILIP BARKER looks back at how TV coverage of the great cricketing duel be…
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Journalism giants hit for six by wonder women
On a ground-breaking day for women’s cricket PHILIP BARKER was at Lord’s to witness at first hand just how far the sport has come and, per…
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Ex-Indy cricket writer Derek Hodgson dies
Derek Hodgson, the former cricket correspondent of the Independent and prolific author, died suddenly on Saturday at his home in Cheshire. He was 87. …
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Forty years on: How Packer changed cricket
Four decades ago marked the start of a cricketing revolution, the effects of which shook the game. PHILIP BARKER reports. Forty years ago this …
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Plum lives on in Lord’s new Warner Stand
By PHILIP BARKER County champions Middlesex meet Essex this week in the first match played at Lord’s this season. They will do so in front of a…
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