Cricket
The All Blacks: world-class time-wasters
Marvellous team, the All Blacks, of course. But they certainly know how to waste some time. Here are some things…
As our World Cup hopes grow, let’s not fret about the brilliant Belgians
Here’s a question: name some famous Belgians. Well there’s Kevin De Bruyne, Vincent Kompany, and Eden Hazard. And if that’s…
Twenty20 is making cricket great again
Twenty20 is making the game great again
Gareth Bale’s megabucks are not a pretty sight
I must have missed the memo when it became compulsory for major football matches to operate as a marketing opportunity…
Letters: Rod Liddle is right, Toby Young is wrong and Bruce Anderson must stop
Campaign for real cricket Sir: Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s splendid article ‘Cricket, unlovely cricket’ (28 April) remonstrated against the threat to Test…
English cricket’s new tournament already looks doomed
Difficult to know quite what to make of The Hundred, which has the feel of being knocked up on the…
Warner and Smith are paying for the sins of a generation of Australian cricket players
When the much-admired (and very tall) literary agent Gillon Aitken died in October 2016, he left most of his estate…
Cricket’s ball-tampering scandal has been nothing but a tearful pantomime
I haven’t seen so many men crying since the end of A Tale of Two Cities at the Scala Cinema…
When does cricketing banter cross the line?
When does cricketing banter cross the line?
More Ashes tours like this and long-form cricket will be in trouble
So will the sight of poor Joe Root at Sydney, pale as a ghost and barely able to stand, heroically…
Tea in the hallowed grounds of Lord’s: The Long Room reviewed
As dreams of winning the Ashes became, well, the only word is ash, for 4-0 is not a number even…
Why Ben Stokes should be picked for Perth
And so to a cloudy, chilly Adelaide, more like London in October than Australia in the early days of high…
Let’s give young Ben Foakes a chance to sweep out the Ashes
So the Ashes has finally got over the line, and not a minute too soon. At the time of writing…
Modern rugby is lethal, and it's only a matter of time before a player dies on the pitch
Rugby’s autumn internationals are almost upon us and dark thoughts hover over lovers of the sport. One day soon a…
BBC1's The Last Post is not for those who like their TV fearless and innovative
BBC1’s latest Sunday-night drama The Last Post, about a British military base in Aden in 1965, feels like a programme…
Henry Blofeld: Why I'm enjoying my long goodbye
This retiring is a hectic business. When I said in June that it was going to be my last year…
An ambitious but selective account of all things Victorian and Edwardian
This is a monumental but inevitably selective survey of all that occurred in Britain, for better or worse, in the…
After a long and bitter redevelopment debate, which way will Lord’s leap?
In the rarefied circles of the sporting establishment a decision will soon be made affecting not just the future of…
England’s new cricketing heroes were real Test Match specials
The weather forecast last Saturday promised 100 per cent likelihood of rain. I like that formulation: it doesn’t leave much…
What ‘shareholder value’ really means
Two programmes this week presented two radically different world views, or rather ways of life. Aditya Chakrabortty’s series for Radio…
John Major: My lifelong love affair with the Oval
My lifelong love affair with the Oval
The Queen, Camilla and me
A funny thing happened on my way to lunch last week. I opened the Daily Mail and read a few…
Marvellous and heroic – the British and Irish Lions in New Zealand
Give them all peerages as far as I’m concerned: if you can pick up a gong for bunging a few…
Pakistan’s cricket team and the power of redemption
The Pakistan supporter was festooned in cream and green, and carried a chalkboard round his neck with the legend: ‘My…
Competitive sport is good for mind, body and soul
‘Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend. Sorry to tell you that, mate,’ the Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios remarked to his opponent…
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