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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Category: Cricket writers
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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Diabetes fund-raiser in memory of Lucas
The family of Dan Lucas, the Guardian cricket and rugby writer who passed away suddenly two weeks ago at the age of 31, have set up a JustGiving page …
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Selvey’s innings comes to poignant end at Lord’s
STEVEN DOWNES pays tribute to the work of The Guardian's cricket correspondent, who filed his last match report for the paper yesterday…
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Cricket books vie for writers’ club annual award
The Cricket Writers' Club has published its shortlist for its Book of the Year competition, the winner to be announced at its 70th anniversary annual …
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England’s forgotten victory in a 1966 World Cup
There's been plenty of coverage over the summer of the 50th anniversary of England's World Cup victory. But as PHILIP BARKER writes, there was another…
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