1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (416+ words) Two equal and opposite things can be true at the same time. In a new Times piece, Mike Atherton asks whether the owners of The Hundred franchises have overpaid in coughing up £500m for their three-week window of exclusivity plus access…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (222+ words) As they grow older, both are almost superhumanly injury free and permanently available. Below the placid surface there is a rage to hold on, a fierce will to survive. No doubt when the time comes there will be knighthoods and…...

3+ mon, 19+ hour ago   (859+ words) There’s a funny bit at the end of the 2022 Ben Stokes documentary Phoenix From The Ashes where host and self-confessed cricket obsessive Sam Mendes quotes Albert Camus to a nonplussed Stokes. After a confusing but good-natured knockabout on some tatty…...