Jonathan Wilson | Cricket Blogs

MAY 11, 2013

When football replaced cricket on the back pages

You can almost pinpoint the date when the switch happened in England

When was the last time cricket was splashed across the pages of UK papers like this? © AFP

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APRIL 30, 2013

The pleasure of reading Ten Great Innings

Ralph Barker's first book on cricket, written in 1964, is a curious one, of indefinite genre. But as a record of history, it does its job

APRIL 15, 2013

The value of sport

What makes it memorable is often less the action than the way in which we consumed it. Sport provides a currency in which the exchanges of social interaction can be conducted. Take Headingley 1991, for instance

APRIL 07, 2013

That '70s cricket circus

Testkill, co-written by Ted Dexter, is a murder mystery involving the death of a bowler. The plot should take a backseat for the reader, who must read it for the portrayal of seventies cricket in all its sordid naffness

MARCH 19, 2013

Brian Clough's cricket connection

Brian Clough might have been one of the greatest football managers the English game ever knew, but cricket held a special place in his life as well

MARCH 05, 2013

All in the mind

We are used to the complaint that there is too much cricket played nowadays, but what if there was too little? You'd be forced to indulge in games played out entirely in the imagination - just as Godfrey Evans once did