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Cricket, tennis and the terrestrial...

There’s a competition in England, at the end of every year, called Sports Personality of the Year (S...

Defence a relic of a bygone era

The 2015 Ashes series has ended, throwing up a number of questions. Why are home sides dominating series? Why do modern batsm...

So England won a hugely disappointing Ashes series. They say that familiarity breeds contempt and these two sides, England an... Why have the Ashes become so uncompetitive?

Cricket, tennis and the terrestrial TV exposure debate

December 8, 2015
There’s a competition in England, at the end of every year, called Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY). It’s a black tie event organised and hosted by the BBC that fetes the home-grown sporting st...

Defence a relic of a bygone era

August 27, 2015
The 2015 Ashes series has ended, throwing up a number of questions. Why are home sides dominating series? Why do modern batsmen have such little patience? Does new technology provide more of an advan...

Why have the Ashes become so uncompetitive?

August 25, 2015
So England won a hugely disappointing Ashes series. They say that familiarity breeds contempt and these two sides, England and Australia, look absolutely sick of the sight of one another. You can hav...

Captain Cook’s crowning glory – time to bow out

August 10, 2015
Alastair Cook said on the eve of this Ashes series that, should England regain the Ashes, it would be his biggest achievement as England captain. He wasn’t wrong. England’s sweeping aside of Australi...

Sponsoring the English summer

August 3, 2015
Village greens, crisp clean whites, the sound of leather on willow, the gentle and continuous murmur of the crowd, long and lazy days spent basking in the glory of the English summer; the sense of En...

Rogers redresses the balance

July 20, 2015
After focussing on the central role of Ben Stokes in the wake of England’s win in Cardiff and his superiority over Shane Watson, it is now time to focus on the crucial cog in the Australian machine t...

The Australians need to start snarling again

July 14, 2015
The fallout from Australia’s defeat to England in the first Ashes Test has centred mainly on selection. Should Shane Watson finally be dropped, is it time for Brad Haddin to be replaced and, most imp...