Ed Smith

Former Kent batsman. Writer of Luck - A Fresh Look at Fortune

Where are the great cricket films?

Boxing, baseball, motor-racing and other sports have produced classics that films based on our game cannot hold a candle to

02-Oct-2013•Ed Smith

How scarcity affects sportsmen

Like elsewhere in life, in sport too, deprivation makes people anxious and one-eyed, leading to mistakes and failure

18-Sep-2013•Ed Smith

Tendulkar and the pull of love

Why does he keep playing? It has to do with belonging, and an abiding love of the craft, the discipline, and of mastery

04-Sep-2013•Ed Smith

How do sports evolve and grow stronger?

The long-term survival of any game depends on whether it is popular enough to pay its own way

22-Aug-2013•Ed Smith

England's magnificent seven

They may not possess Botham-standard superstars, but more than half their team consists of formidable players

07-Aug-2013•Ed Smith

Australia: hubris, despair, panic

Clarke and Co find themselves where England were in the 1990s. But how did the two nations fall into such a state?

24-Jul-2013•Ed Smith

Mickey's problem

Australia's recently replaced coach came up against an Australian cricketing culture struggling to come to terms with a new reality

26-Jun-2013•Ed Smith

Why the Ashes are about identity

The greatest sporting rivalries are about groups of people trying to discover who they really are

12-Jun-2013•Ed Smith

What the IPL can learn from Champions League football

One of these tournaments is rich, revered and rigorous in its demand for high standards. It's not the cricket one

29-May-2013•Ed Smith

What matters: leadership, data analysis, culture

Three factors that can play an important role in a team's success

15-May-2013•Ed Smith

It's not about selection or tactics, silly

Understanding causes is incredibly difficult. It is much easier to assume that easily discernible surface issues are the primary explanations for victory and defeat

01-May-2013•Ed Smith

CMJ: broadcaster, writer, gentleman

Cricket's greatest friend combined courtesy with a strong sense of authenticity

17-Apr-2013•Ed Smith

Why Cook's right for England

Or: the merits of long-term character over short-term flashiness

03-Apr-2013•Ed Smith

No easy answers to the question of Test cricket's future

There has been plenty of talk of how to save the game's premier form, but we're nowhere closer to a solution

13-Mar-2013•Ed Smith

What can colonoscopies teach us about cricket?

The way we remember players' careers affects our judgement of them

28-Feb-2013•Ed Smith

Peaks or high plateaus: what makes a player great?

How do you measure success in sport? Is it about consistency or the ability to dazzle?

13-Feb-2013•Ed Smith

The vexed task of managing player workloads

The row over rotation reveals several fault lines running through Australian cricket, and also within the professional game as a whole

30-Jan-2013•Ed Smith

The zone and the importance of imagination

A sportsman in the zone, like an artist, has both a wider and a narrower focus. He has the ability to be in the game and yet stand above it, seeing it clearly

16-Jan-2013•Ed Smith

Should Tendulkar stay or go? The tough call may be the kindest

Conventional logic cannot be applied to players of his quality, but India will do its hero a disservice if it refuses to make a pragmatic decision

19-Dec-2012•Ed Smith

What made Ponting so tough?

His talent and ambition were polished and hardened by Australia's competitive cricket culture, and during his peak he was his team's biggest wicket

06-Dec-2012•Ed Smith

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