Cool Ed Smith

Feb 10, 2008: Ed Smith’s newie, What Sport Tells Us About Life , is not just the best book by a Middlesex captain since Mike Brearley’s The Art of Captaincy a couple of decades ago

When substitution adds up

Feb 1, 2008: Had RP been fit to bowl the 23 overs sent down by Tendulkar, Sehwag and Ganguly, in addition to the four to which he was confined, his strike-rate suggests he might have taken three wickets

The Wisden Cricketer - February 2008

The men with the most

Jan 24, 2008: Before Warne and Murali jumped ahead, other bowlers held the distinction of being the leading wicket-takers of the time. The Wisden Cricketer trawls through the record-breakers of their day

Ricky's dream

Jan 21, 2008: I was off my game, mate

Monkeyline revisited

Jan 14, 2008: At the height of it all, some Pommie journo living here wrote a column calling for Ponting’s resignation, for the way his team’s behaviour had shamed the country and undermined the spirit of the game, which in turn led to a two-year investigation of

Symonds and the Samson Factor

Jan 7, 2008: It cannot be said that Symonds is widely characterised by his pigmentation

A tale of two flatmates

Jan 4, 2008: "It's difficult to compare them," Peter Moores admitted four years ago, then did just that with consummate ease

English cricket

Vaughan reborn

Dec 16, 2007: Not only is Michael Vaughan showing signs of re-scaling the heights of 2002; he is also beginning to come to terms with what so many assume to be the toughest job in sport: captaining a cricket team

Fielders of dreams

Dec 11, 2007: There is, however, one department of expertise for which claiming that we’ve never had it so good is entirely justifiable, incontrovertibly so

English cricket

Rauf justice

Dec 5, 2007: Surely the third umpire, the grandly-monikered Tyron Hirantha Wijewardene, should have been in a position to pick up his walkie-talkie and gently alert Asad Rauf to the bat’s involvement before he made a fool of himself

An undiluted champion

Dec 3, 2007: We Hebrews have a word for such occasions: mazeltov

Dear David Morgan

Nov 22, 2007: David/Dai, it will be on your watch, in 2009, that the ICC celebrates its centenary

Of greed and stupidity

Nov 14, 2007: So the Indian board have backed Cricket Australia’s decision to charge agencies for the privilege of reporting matches, have they

Machine-made humanity

Nov 8, 2007: To retain credibility, professional sport, its practitioners and audience, deserve as much justice as is humanly possible

Dunkin’ Duncan

Nov 1, 2007: Here was the perfect subject: a scorned public figure with a year’s salary and a hefty publisher’s advance in his pocket, nothing to lose and an axe or 50 to grind.

Both v Chappelli (Part 31)

Oct 24, 2007: On the other hand, this is a grave time in our planet’s history

When the Law is an ass

Oct 22, 2007: How reassuring, then, to read the comments of Syd Millar, chairman of the International Rugby Board, who believes his sport should be “freed up a bit” and “produce more options for players”

England's Brave New World (Chapter 382)

Oct 13, 2007: Despite the drubbing in the final ODI, England have a lot of positives to take from the series win in Sri Lanka

Goodbye ugly duckling, hello Swann

Oct 1, 2007: He still needs no encouragement to open those slim shoulders and clout balls to all parts but now, as today’s innings underlined, he can place and flick, pace and judge

Time to forgive Ramprakash

Sep 26, 2007: How can an England team without Ramprakash be truly representative of the nation’s cricketing talent

He made £1500 in one night.

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