Martin Offiah says it is ‘impossible’ for his England record to be broken
The rugby league legend, 55, on his love of history and Mastermind, playing cricket for Essex and his sporty sons.
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Alec Stewart insists county cricket is producing ‘high class’ Test players
Alec Stewart has defended the County Championship, with Surrey’s director of cricket insisting England’s first-class system is an adequate breeding ground for producing Test-quality players despite England’s woes.
I Don’t Think We’ve Met celebrates a golden age of cricketing chivalry
Cricket and theatre have long been intimate bedfellows. Stroll round Lord’s on a Test match day and you meet more actors than at an Equity AGM. Playwrights from Beckett and Pinter to Rattigan and Hare have been drawn to the game for obvious reasons: that cricket, like drama, is a formalised ritual pulsating with subtext. That is palpably true of the latest cricket play, I Don’t Think We’ve Met, written by Ian Smith, an academic and ex-captain of Pinter’s team, The Gaieties It was given a one-off performance this week at a London dinner emcee’d by Graham Gooch: an extraordinary event that was about a lot more than the game itself.
Shane Warne: A cricket phenomenon whose brilliance could not be put into words
Live fast, die young. But Shane Warne only bowled slow.
The greatest delivery of all time: Remembering Shane Warne’s ‘Ball of the Century’ to Mike Gatting
Shane Warne took an incredible 708 Test wickets over his amazing career, but none have been revered as much as his ‘Ball of the Century’ from nearly three decades ago.
On this day: Joe Root is confirmed as England’s new Test captain
Joe Root was confirmed as England’s new Test captain on this day in 2017, one week after Sir Alastair Cook’s resignation.
On this day in 2017: Joe Root is confirmed as England’s new Test captain
Joe Root was confirmed as England’s new Test captain on this day in 2017, one week after Sir Alastair Cook’s resignation.