The Specsavers County Championship Is Back! The men’s Specsavers County Championship will return as confirmed by The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today. The fixtures are set to start from August the 1st. The coronavirus pandemic has meant that no cricket has been played so far this summer. This holds true for both England […] READ MORE
Graham Gooch: Perhaps the greatest? Gooch is widely regarded by some as the greatest opening batsman to play for England in the modern era. His change of technique half-way through his career gave him awesome power with the bat and he once he was in, “he belted oppositions” according to Terry Alderman. Gooch was England’s […] READ MORE
A Friendly Reminder? Since the last competitive match finished at the Oval back in September 2019, domestic cricket is seemingly finally moving towards a return in the UK. Club friendlies are set to take place soon. These friendlies will likely help cricket restart again, amid the fears that the season could be postponed. The coronavirus […] READ MORE
The Pandemic The coronavirus has affected the world of sport since March. Various sports were stopped between March and June. Football only recently returned in Germany in May and last week in England. Cricket is scheduled to return on the 8th of July. England will be hosting the West Indies. However, some national competitions have […] READ MORE
The Opening Dilemma It could be argued that Alistair Cook’s retirement has not hurt England as much as they might have imagined. Currently, England has three openers battling it out for just two places in the test team. Reports suggest that Zak Crawley could be the unlucky omission. Rory Burns, Dominic Sibley and Zak Crawley have […] READ MORE
Australian batsman Marnus Labuschange has signed a new deal with Glamorgan. He will now stay with Glamorgan until the end of the 2022 season. Initially, he has signed a two year deal with Glamorgan. But due to current circumstances, he is unlikely to travel to Wales this summer. “It was an easy decision to extend […] READ MORE
Under-19 cricket isn’t kids kicking up heels, mankading non-strikers out all the time or even impressing your dad watching by the sidelines. It’s not even for kids. It’s for the GenY. There’s a youthful exuberance, hunger to excel, adrenaline riding waves of enthusiasm and faces waking up to the rigours of International cricket. Some go […] READ MORE
Why Fantasy Cricket Is Great For The Sport Fantasy cricket is a new concept within the context of the sport. With the sport’s origins dating back to 1598 (at the earliest), fantasy cricket has been around for barely one one-hundredth of that. Still, as the world of any sport tends to evolve through the technological […] READ MORE
While ECB pace programmes struggle to produce a vast quantity of fast bowlers, Ian Pont and UPF believe their latest project, NFBAUK, has the answers READ MORE
Is Moeen Ali At Three A Long-Term Solution? Joe Root has been rather inconsistent lately. A poor conversion rate and a technical deficiency to play in-swingers has contributed to a torrid run of form. At the beginning of Root’s captaincy, he was adamant that he wanted to bat at number four. Even after trying Tom […] READ MORE