...but not if you watch England. Note I said in all forms of cricket, not just the professional game. For nigh on a quarter of a century...

Anybody who saw the recent 47-ball century by Chris Gayle for the West Indies against England in the T20 World Cup would not have raised...

FOSTER 287 AUSTRALIA 285 (Evening News headline, 16th December 1903) On holiday in Australia recently, I was invited by a friend of my...

Rather like a Glyndebourne devotee at his first Glastonbury Festival, I approached the Rose Bowl in Southampton (I refuse to call it the...

Not long after I stopped playing county cricket, I was selected for the MCC (captain, I’ll have you know) to play a respectable club in...

“Why have I been dropped from the school team, Dad? I took three wickets last match.” “I’m sorry, Son, but it’s because of the colour of...

My friend leant across me to ask of my companion, “What do you think of Joe Root as a batsman?” He was asking the right person. Sitting...

An essayist, a features writer, a columnist, a blogger must have two pistons to drive his commentary: a subject and an opinion. In this...

1967 – when the Swinging Sixties finally lifted off for this teenager The Swinging Sixties. The label stuck only because of its lazy use...