The evolution of technique

Different strokes for different blokes

Mar 29, 2011: The cricketing lexicon ranges far and wide as batsmen invent shots for shorter and shorter forms of the game, while bowlers come up with methods of tackling them

The changing role of the umpire

Empowered or undermined?

Mar 22, 2011: Umpires do not wish to become obsolete, but they know they cannot stand in the way of all-embracing progress

Bob Woolmer

He who loved the game

Mar 18, 2011: Bob Woolmer died in desperately sad circumstances, but it's his innocence and integrity that he will be remembered for

The evolution of the cricket bat

Heavier, higher, longer

Mar 15, 2011: Batsmen are becoming stronger and fitter. Their bats - bigger, with huge edges and enhanced sweet spots, seem to be following suit

The birth of Twenty20 cricket

A sport for the fast-food generation

Mar 8, 2011: The governing body of English cricket will forever be in credit for the laborious if costly research it carried out to bring us the monster that is Twenty20 cricket

The proliferation of television

The tentacles of TV

Mar 1, 2011: Sky's much lauded coverage now extends to seven sports in 3D in addition to acting virtually as an extra umpire in cricket

Television and umpires

The umpire isn't always right

Feb 22, 2011: It started with the use of television replays to adjudicate on run-outs, but now the third umpire can be involved in all decisions via the UDRS

Floodlit cricket

Cricket in a new light

Feb 15, 2011: When the World Series started playing cricket under lights people laughed it off, but now it's a key part of the game at domestic and international level

The Stanford meltdown

Sticky Wicket becomes a wearing track

Feb 3, 2011: Fellow inmates beat him up in jail, creditors seek to regain their investments, and the ECB quietly expunges him and his wretched helicopter from any annals and annuals at Lord's. Yet there is one significant individual who claims he should return to his

Six of the Best: Cricket's Most Famous Over

Six balls, six sixes, one fascinating book

Nov 30, 2008: Grahame Lloyd tells, grippingly, the story of one of the most celebrated overs in cricket

Writer to director

Nov 7, 2008: Old Middlesex alumnus Angus Fraser will have plenty on his plate when he takes over as head of operations at the club soon

Stanford Super Series 2008-09

A restless tycoon

Oct 25, 2008: Ivo Tennant previews the Stanford Super Series which gets underway on Saturday

English season review

Championship shows it can survive new age

Sep 29, 2008: The instigation of two divisions in the County Championship has been a blessing of sorts. In terms of maintaining interest until the very end

Excellence exhausted

Sep 4, 2008: Whither cricket at Fenner's and in the Parks and at the other four centres of excellence, asks Ivo Tennant

Big name needed to fill big boots

Aug 21, 2008: Hampshire have struggled since the departure of Shane Warne and need to focus on young local talent

County cricket

Rebooting the English game

Aug 7, 2008: Ivo Tennant on measures to reinvigorate the next tier of English cricket

County cricket

Canterbury feels the crunch

Jul 28, 2008: The St Lawrence at Canterbury, the ground on which Colin Cowdrey once wrote that he would choose to spend his last moments on earth, hosts the oldest cricket festival in the country this week

County cricket

Twenty20 expansion on the cards

Jul 7, 2008: No sooner has Giles Clarke arrived back from draining discussions about Zimbabwe with the ICC in Dubai than he is having to revert to dealing with all issues Twenty20 this week

County cricket

Middlesex's timing awry

Jun 24, 2008: At Lord's on July 22, Middlesex will hold a special general meeting. But with the club now finding their form, their timing is all awry, argues Ivo Tennant

County view

Oval held hostage by Health and Safety

May 28, 2008: The Health and Safety Executive has objected to the proposed erection of a four-star 168-bedroom hotel and nearly 2000 seats some 150 yards from the gas-holders at The Oval

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