The story of Robin Smith and the Judge
The former England batter was a beautiful man and a brilliant cricketer who took on the best and most threatening in the world and often won
Mark Nicholas
December 2025
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The omnishambles Ashes: how England broke on the Covid tour of 2021-22
Tours to Australia are never easy, but Covid restrictions made the series that much harder for Joe Root's England side
Vithushan Ehantharajah
November 2025
Deadly down under: Derek Underwood's World Series Cricket chapter
When the England spinner and some of his Kent team-mates signed for Kerry Packer's breakaway enterprise in the '70s, it nearly broke the county apart
Shubman Gill: the next big thing is king
They've been saying he will captain India for a while now. His time has finally come
How 'Happy Hampshire' came to be part of a multi-million dollar international cricket franchise
The debt-ridden club now has Indian owners and is at the forefront of a revolution in England
Matt Roller
March 2025
Christmas in Somalia: a wartime cricket story
About 80 years ago, as war raged around the world, a British army man tried to spread the gospel of the game in north-east Africa
Extremely loud and incredibly vile: how social media abuse wrecks cricketers
X, Instagram and Facebook are hotbeds of ugly name-calling and harassment that causes more harm than might seem likely
Baracara's speed demon: the Shamar Joseph story
How a 24-year-old from a Guyanese village set world cricket alight
When at the Rec, call Shipwreck
The patron saint of the Antigua Recreation Ground, Stansfield Joseph has been the man international players and locals alike turn to for all their cricketing needs and beyond
Steve Bucknor is still raising the finger
The Jamican umpire who retired 15-odd years ago is still doing what he knows best - this time, in New York