My Life in Cricket Scorecards

John Arlott’s Vintage Summer 1947 was one of the first cricket books I owned. Written 20 years after the event, it is the great commen...

Scorecard If yesterday’s play was pedestrian, today’s was a pleasant saunter in the sun, fast enough to keep the scenery changing suf...

Scorecard We’ve been here before. At the Basin Reserve tests of both the last two years, in fact. New Zealand skittled on a green pit...

Scorecard The contest for sport’s most unoriginally named prize begins. Australia and New Zealand will contest the Trans-Tasman Trophy ...

Scorecard The old joke about New Zealand, favoured by those who can’t think of anything amusing to say, is that when you land here yo...

Scorecard We still haven’t worked out T20 here in New Zealand. I don’t mean in the playing sense. On good days, we are better than mo...

Scorecard Any day that begins with the acquisition of two new members of the primrose brotherhood is bound to be a good one, though m...

Scorecard #plunketshield trended briefly on Twitter in Wellington on the first day of this game, which was heartening, but more indicati...

Hat tricks Nos 6 and 7 are at opposite ends of the sublime/ridiculous spectrum. One a fluent Gower off drive, the other a Devon Malcolm swip...

The middle three of my seven hat tricks were all taken by Kent quick bowlers all of whom experienced fleeting glory for England. 3. Rich...