Opinion

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

By Hook or by Brooks
Most histories of the game focus on its pastoral charm, innate beauty and its cast of talented and often eccentric heroes. I've read many...

T20 World Cup Preview: T20 comes of age

Men's T20 World Cup
On the 13th June 2003, the first professional T20 match was played. Twenty-one years later, T20 will have evolved itself from an experiment to...

The Batmaker of Copenhagen – A story all cricket fans should read

Opinion
Jake Perry reviews The Batmaker of Copenhagen by Tim Brooks, author of Cricket on the Continent, and A Corner of Every Foreign Field. In the interests...

Cricket in Clogs book review

Opinion
Former Dutch international JJ Esmeijer’s latest book, Cricket in Clogs, is a collection of personal reflections from those who have appeared in the 29...

The Egalitarian World of T20I cricket

#ECVoice
By Sankalp Jha as part of EC Voice. If there is one thing about how the cricketing world functions that even casual viewers of the...

Has Cricket Australia joined the good guys?

Opinion
At first glance it’s a bit hard to know what to make of Cricket Australia chairman Mike Baird’s latest intervention, extremely welcome though it...

Emerging Cricket Roundtable – ODIs in Crisis!

Insight
The future of international cricket has been an issue almost as long as the international game has existed. There have been many proclamations that...

Why Mark Nicholas is absolutely wrong

News
It was, after all, that gentlemen’s club, the Marylebone Cricket Club, which got us into this mess in the first place: through its arrogant,...

Ireland’s T20 Rebuild and the Time Warp

Insight
You know when you learn or pick up something by accident? That's pretty handy, right. Well for Ireland that's what seemed to happen during...

Worth the wait, but more to come: Nepal at the Asia Cup

Asia Cup
It may have ended without a victory, though Nepal grabbed attention despite suffering defeats to two Asian powerhouses. Their debut Asia Cup campaign kicked off...
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