Chris Silverwood’s team is behind where he hoped it would be, but India’s series victory can provide a blueprint for successThere was a slightly anticlimactic feel to the announcement of England’s squad for the upcoming Ashes tour. Maybe it was only na…
‘I’m a cricketer, what makes me different?’ England’s black players on racism and exclusion
Forty years since the first black cricketer played for England, players open up on their experiencesIn 1981, David “Syd” Lawrence played his debut season for Gloucestershire – a big deal for a 17-year-old, who had inherited his cricketing passion from …
The summer of cricket proved mixed crowds can improve the fan experience | Emma John
It turns out that lowering the average testosterone levels of a sporting crowd really can make a differenceCricket’s culture wars can call a truce. There is something traditionalists and progressives agree on, and rather surprisingly it’s about the Hun…
The Hundred has won over the doubters and smashed its way to success | Emma John
The players enjoyed it and Kevin Pietersen was a good pundit, but teams can still work on their identitiesWell, that happened. The first edition of the Hundred is complete, after 32 games, 429 sixes, 1,581 fours and 3,327 uses of the word matchup. The …
Kohli leads India with style to leave Root burdened by England’s failings | Emma John
The India captain was having an indecently good time in the series opener but the hosts were left with little to smile aboutIt was quiet, too quiet. It was the taut, knotted silence a cricket fan knows all too well, the one they can read instantly, whe…
Heyhoe Flint Gate at Lord’s is a fitting tribute to the first lady of English cricket | Emma John
Next summer the home of cricket will pay permanent homage to the woman who opened up an all but exclusively male game to the other half of the populationSometimes you just have to go with the grand gesture. On Wednesday morning Marylebone Cricket Club …
Dismissed as the unwanted Games, just how did these Olympics steal our hearts? | Emma John
Covid. No spectators. And yet Tokyo is not an absurd sideshow – it has only increased the awe we feel for the competitorsWhat’s been the image of the Games for you so far? Is it Adam Peaty, smacking the water with an explosive mix of adrenaline and rel…