My Life in Cricket Scorecards

  The fourth test match was the longest game of cricket ever played in England, and was still drawn when it finally ended after six days. ...

The cricket ground at Cheriton Road, Folkestone was functional, with a concrete crescent of a terrace forming a stand about ten rows deep th...

The fourth day of the third test set up us up for a wonderful fifth. England, already 337 ahead, added another 107 to their overnight score ...

Australia went to Leeds for the third test with a degree of suspicion. Their last test match there ended in a three-day loss as Derek Unde...

It is hard to see how Henry Blofeld could justify calling the second test “exciting”. Memorable, certainly, mainly for the benefits for na...

  We come now to the curious case of the test-match career of David Steele, as strange a story as English cricket has seen in my time. As ...

This week in 1975 the cricket took a mid-season breather. There was no international cricket and no round of Championship games starting on ...

  Mike Denness’s England captaincy came to an end on the damp grass of Edgbaston. His fortunes had changed. At first he was a lucky captain,...

Starting in the present day, England won the first test against India, and lost the second, after Ben Stokes won the toss and put the visito...

Bob Woolmer had been a Kent regular for seven years by 1975. For most of that time he had batted at No 8 and been a useful purveyor of swing...

This week fifty years ago was the finest of my cricket-watching life. That two defeats for Australia were involved only enhances the memory,...