Jonathan Wilson

Writer for the Guardian, the National, Sports Illustrated, World Soccer and Fox

@jonawils

No cricket on Saturday?

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

03-May-2014•Jonathan Wilson

The Argentine connection

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

21-Apr-2014•Jonathan Wilson

When sportsmen stop caring enough

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

06-Apr-2014•Jonathan Wilson

How much of a sportsman's story do you need to know?

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

24-Mar-2014•Jonathan Wilson

On Twitter, sport is black and white

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

10-Mar-2014•Jonathan Wilson

Bigger, better? Sorry, no

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?

25-Feb-2014•Jonathan Wilson

Cricket's not a lost cause yet

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

09-Feb-2014•Jonathan Wilson

Down and out in Galle

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

27-Jan-2014•Jonathan Wilson

Who's to blame when a player and coach fall out?

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

13-Jan-2014•Jonathan Wilson

The pull of sport during Christmas

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

30-Dec-2013•Jonathan Wilson

Murder and mysterious cricket footage

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

16-Dec-2013•Jonathan Wilson

The grass must be green, the strip yellow

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

02-Dec-2013•Jonathan Wilson

The perfect end

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

18-Nov-2013•Jonathan Wilson

When Dad's Army did cricket, wretchedly

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

04-Nov-2013•Jonathan Wilson

Do team-mates have to get along?

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

20-Oct-2013•Jonathan Wilson

Harmison of Sabina and elsewhere

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

06-Oct-2013•Jonathan Wilson

Stop the treadmill, I want to get off

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

23-Sep-2013•Jonathan Wilson

Why does cricket not lend itself to the novel?

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

09-Sep-2013•Jonathan Wilson

Pondering Camus

The complex relationship between sport and morality

26-Aug-2013•Jonathan Wilson

Keeping score

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

10-Aug-2013•Jonathan Wilson

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