The ball you're always trying to bowl
May 2, 2016 When your shoulder is sore, your shin protests, you feel like death, and you play cricket - hoping to produce the devastating dipper you long for
We won at the P Sara
Jan 28, 2016 The Authors notch up their second victory away from home, with a little help (sort of) from your correspondent
My first five-for
Oct 6, 2015 It's rare when you're at a certain stage of life to do something for the first time, but it can happen
The travails of a middle-aged cricketer
Aug 30, 2015 When the bad days outnumber the good, and the aches and pains hasten your decline, you wonder if each game might be your last
The wicket I took on a Test ground
Mar 17, 2015 It only changed a nine-wicket defeat into an eight-wicket one but the memory will live forever
It's about anecdotes, not numbers
Sep 15, 2014 Runs and wickets matter little in games involving authors, seminarians and the like. It pays to keep your ears open
The fear of the ringer
Aug 3, 2014 How a team can collapse in the face of some ordinary bowling if they believe they are batting against a pro
So how was your cricket weekend?
Jun 2, 2014 Did it involve getting locked in a coffee-shop toilet, getting off the bus in the wrong place, and discovering the Bopara pose?
Down and out in Galle
Jan 27, 2014 One of cricket's great attributes is that it has room even for the not-so-competent. Sometimes, though, that allowance does not seem to apply
And the rest is history
Jun 10, 2013 A wicket off a long hop and a memorable six: oh for the golden summer of 2002 (or was it?)