Mike Holmans

Congrats to the Dutch

A little World Cup involving twelve teams does not need an opening ceremony to kick it off – a thrilling cricket match was all that was needed, and that is what we had.

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Super Dan and Ugly Brendon

Over the next three weeks we will see brilliance and incompetence, thrilling games and bad ones, beauty, courage, comedy, athleticism, determination, clumsiness, impudence, passion, triumph and despair

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Twenty20's novelty wearing off

The novelty value of Twenty20 seems to be wearing off

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Gayle must go

The West Indies turned up like teenagers to a cinema showing “Bowlers of the Living Dead”, expecting to be scared out of their wits

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

The Middlesex quartet

The conventional batsman does no more than go forward or back, and possibly move his front leg outside off stump to prevent the lbw, but when the ball is delivered, these four go a-roaming in search of the best place to play the shot they intend.

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

What just happened in England?

For a team which was in turmoil five months ago, this is an impressive tribute to the management skills of Strauss and Flower

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

How IPL affects Test form

This is a very small sample from which to try and draw any conclusions, but the obvious one is that form is continuous from one form of the game to another

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Not good enough for Australia

England deserved their win, and it is a significant step forward for them to be one-nil up rather than one-nil down after the First Test of a series, but they will have to improve their batting considerably if they are to challenge Australia later in

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Who selects the English team?

Interpreting anything that happens through the prism of the coach being Lord High Everything does us all a disservice

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Cricket sans frontiers

Having captained Yorkshire to their first championship in thirty years, Australian Darren Lehmann has a plaque in his honour on the West Stand at Headingley

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Michael's calling

The truth of “class is permanent” is nowhere better demonstrated than on the county grounds of England

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

A case for multiple captains

The central question Buchanan raised is a valid one

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

England's win is England's loss

The plan must be that the series win sufficiently blinds them to their own uselessness to allow the rest of the world to laugh at them come June

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Bravo, Bravo!

Dwayne Bravo does not take as many wickets as the other bowlers, nor does he score as many runs as those higher in the order, but then his contribution is more qualitative than quantitative

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

England in Wonderland

There is clearly a distinct risk that several England players will be unavailable for training tomorrow, being on sick parade with sides split through laughing manically at their good fortune

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

What should the ECB do next summer?

This is the same ECB which arranged an England Performance Squad tour of India to coincide with the senior team’s tour before Christmas, a transparent way of making sure they would have a pool of reserves fit and acclimatised if they suddenly needed

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Wake up call for West Indies

It was a mighty effort of collective will for West Indies to hold firm and win the series

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Underdog day afternoons

Pitches which so effectively extract the teeth of bowling attacks that batsmen are only in danger of being gummed to death make Test cricket a test only of endurance

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Another win for Test cricket

West Indies on song bring joy, the pure joy of exulting in excellence, the feeling that nothing can be so much fun as being good at cricket, and that is a joy we need in these otherwise depressing days

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

Should Giles Clarke go?

It is easy after the fact to say that the ECB should have seen through statements about fantastic rates of return on investments as being impossible, but a year ago the press were still running gosh-wow stories about hedge fund managers who made

25-Feb-2013•Mike Holmans

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