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By Hook or by Brooks

‘The Club: Empire, Power and the Governance of World Cricket’ is an unsparing look into the ills of global cricket governance

Tim Brooks - 25th March 2025

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Harsh Test lessons for Ireland against dominant Sri Lanka

Dave Sihra - 29th April 2023

USA Cricket name 15 for Women’s World Cup Global Qualifier

Columns 1st September 2022

USA Cricket have selected 15 for the Women’s T20 World Cup Global Qualifiers to begin on September 10 in Dubai. This latest team configuration shows...

New hosts and competitors breathe life in regional structures: By Hook or By Brooks

By Hook or by Brooks 21st July 2022

It has been very uplifting to see cricket being played far and wide across the emerging cricket world in recent months after the period...

Super Over: One key question for each team ahead of the T20 World Cup

Events 15th October 2021

With the T20 World Cup almost upon us, Emerging Cricket explores the challenges that each of the six teams will need to overcome in...

Super Over: Six key stories for 2021

Super Over 3rd February 2021

After 2020 and COVID-19 brought the cricketing world to grinding halt, 2021 offers hope that cricket can pick up where it left off in...

Challenges and opportunities at the turn of the millennium

By Hook or by Brooks 24th November 2020

Although culturally very distinct, continental Europe was also within the orbit of the ECB and those that shared a North Sea coast were so...

Germany’s tryst with the World Cup Qualifier

EC Rewind 13th October 2020

The 2001 World Cup Qualifier in Canada, then known as the ICC Trophy, featured as many as 24 teams bifurcated into two divisions, with two groups...

Revisiting a Franco-German cliffhanger

EC Rewind 30th August 2020

Be it France’s 6-3 win at the 1958 World Cup, or West Germany’s victorious penalty shootout in the semifinal of the 1982 edition, the Franco-German fixture has provided...