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…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (473+ words) They talk about bowling fast like it’s a choice you make. Jofra Archer can bowl at 95mph, but today he’s bowling at 85 mph, why is that? They don’t say, Joe Root chose not to make a century today, do they? Joe…...

3+ mon, 17+ 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…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (369+ words) Even cool Chris may bat an eyelid at the idea of a fifteen-year-old blasting him into oblivion, but if it doesn’t happen this year – and the kid has at least one more game to go – someone will do it next....

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (407+ words) It would have been a cruelty to select Zak Crawley for the first Test match of the summer – and it is an equal and opposite cruelty not to, as well. At some point, the debate has to stop being about…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (381+ words) A quick note: Thank you to everyone who bought a copy of Vinciness. The edition has sold out, but wanted to offer up the promised second extract – it’s about the quest to find a painting of a place that doesn’t…...

7+ mon, 3+ day ago   (332+ words) It was a private heaven, with admission granted to the few. Well, not any more. Getty might appreciate the irony of his creation losing the last of its mystery because of money, what with money having been what broke and…...

8+ mon, 18+ hour ago   (270+ words) So you met these two blokes one day, and they said they liked what you do. The other lads in the team are the only ones who really get it. It’s easier to understand from the inside because a lot…...