Jonathan Wilson

A day off and no good cricket to go to - how's that possible with the jam-packed calendars of today?

Football may be the dominant sport in Argentina today but it wasn't the first sport the British took there

The body and mind may be fit enough but athletes often retire when overcome by a profound weariness. Cases in point: Ponting and Swann

Journalists may crave the minutest details, but fans are happy to leave some things to the imagination

Sport has the capacity to forge bonds of connection, but it's hard to do that on platforms that encourage instant, reactive responses

Why does cricket have to succumb to the marketers' eternal need for everything to be bigger, flashier, and more in tune with youth - whatever that means?

Sackings, revamps, and poor crowds are dispiriting to witness, but your faith in the game is restored when you get thrashed by U-17s while being cheered on by sympathetic schoolchildren

One of cricket's great attributes is that it has room even for the not-so-competent. Sometimes, though, that allowance does not seem to apply

In football it's often clear whether a player's attitude or performance has a detrimental effect on the team. In cricket, that isn't so obvious from the outside

Nothing makes a family get-together over the holidays more bearable than Test cricket on the telly

The curious case of Test match footage used in a TV crime drama

Unlike most other sports, cricket needs to look right to its fans, from the colour of the grass, the pitch and the stumps to the quality of the light

The best retirements require struggle, one last victory over the forces of entropy, the century made from unpromising beginnings through teary eyes

Television dramas have been historically poor at depicting cricket. Exhibit A: an episode of a well-loved British sitcom

Dressing rooms are, after all, workplaces. Do you really need to make friends in there?

His unpredictability could be frustrating, but perhaps the truth of his career and his personality was that he was somebody at his best out of the limelight

There's never any time to enjoy the triumphs because you need to look ahead to the next game

It could be because literary description of sport is almost impossible because of our over-familiarity with the language of reporting

The complex relationship between sport and morality

For some, there's a particular satisfaction derived from generating league tables and scorecards