Matches (12)

NZ vs ENG (1)

Women's World Cup (2)

PAK vs SA (1)

One-Day Cup (3)

ZIM vs AFG (1)

AUS vs IND (1)

HKGPL (2)

PNG-W vs UAE-E (1)

Gideon Haigh

Notes from the middle

A memoir that gives the game the time, attention and moral seriousness it calls for

22-Mar-2008•Gideon Haigh

War diary

Fingleton's account of Bodyline may not be definitive, but it is fair, if contrarian, and bears the ineffable scent of leather

23-Feb-2008•Gideon Haigh

An everycricketer's journal

It's a rare player of any level who will not recognise him or herself in some or even all of the attitudes on show in Roebuck's diary of his 1983 season

15-Feb-2008•Gideon Haigh

Gavaskar's double role

Sunil Gavaskar is bomb-thrower and bomb-defuser put into one, who somehow manages to operate as the chairman of the ICC's cricket committee while also acting as peppery columnist and media provocateur

15-Jan-2008•Gideon Haigh

A price for everything

A look back at the Packer revolution, three decades on

03-Dec-2007•Gideon Haigh

A tactic of its time

Why Jardine's leg theory was almost uniquely a product of its age

22-Oct-2007•Gideon Haigh

Shorter, simpler, sillier

For a sport as steeped in tradition as it is, cricket has surprisingly forever been toying with the fundamentals of its form. By Gideon Haigh

07-Sep-2007•Gideon Haigh

Gentrifying the game

Gideon Haigh pays tribute to Bill Johnston

26-May-2007•Gideon Haigh

Sorcerer and apprentice

Warne v Pietersen, a cricket rivalry for the ages

09-Jan-2007•Gideon Haigh

The mog that got into the mausoleum

Gideon Haigh takes us on a guided tour of a new anthology of Wisden obituaries that includes poets, pacifists, prime ministers...and a cat

13-Oct-2006•Gideon Haigh

Nerves of steel and a heart of flint

The life and times of controversial umpire Darrell Hair

28-Sep-2006•Gideon Haigh

'So much done, so little to do'

Gideon Haigh looks at the remarkable Abe Bailey, the man responsible for the ICC

12-Sep-2006•Gideon Haigh

The finest kind of madness

Roy Marshall felt that cricket contained two kinds of madman: the fast bowler, because he expended his energies so wildly and thriftlessly; but also the opening batsman

23-Aug-2006•Gideon Haigh

Serenity at its cold-blooded best

15-Aug-2006•Gideon Haigh

Blythe's canvas immortality

Gideon Haigh looks at Kent's slow left-arm hero Charlie Blythe

01-Aug-2006•Gideon Haigh

The Majestic MacLaren that wasn't

Gideon Haigh looks at the creation of a majestic cricketer in Archie MacLaren by writer Neville Cardus

18-Jul-2006•Gideon Haigh

Out of the shadows

Vintcent van der Bijl wasn't the obvious choice for The Times' hundred greatest cricketers when it was published in 1997. And yet his inclusion passed with remarkably little objection. Gideon Haigh explains why

04-Jul-2006•Gideon Haigh

Errol Hunte and the cricketer who never was

RL Hunte's records appeared in Wisden for eighteen years; he had a contemporary corporeal counterpart. But when he vanished hugger-mugger, it was as though he'd never been there. And, in fact, he hadn't, says Gideon Haigh

19-Jun-2006•Gideon Haigh

Ewen Chatfield - The niggardly farmer

In the 1980s, New Zealand cricket had larger-than-life luminaries like Sir Richard Hadlee and Martin Crowe; yet they were somehow personified by the lesser-than-life figure of Ewen Chatfield, says Gideon Haigh

06-Jun-2006•Gideon Haigh

Bob Fowler - The student prince

Gideon Haigh looks back at Fowler's match in 1910 ... forgotten now, but back then, the talk of the Empire

22-May-2006•Gideon Haigh

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