Peter English

The Tubes heading south on the Northern Line are crammed full of excitement and there’s a queue from Oval station to the ground

Lord’s has a resident cat and now The Oval is home to a fox

There were a few groans around England training today but not enough pain for them to turn into legitimate injury scares

Hambledon Cricket Club “circa 1750”, according to the club signs, is a couple of miles from the rural Hampshire village and a bit tricky to find, mainly because the directions tend to come at the turn-off and we’re too busy avoiding the on-coming

I first started looking for Albert Trott’s grave in 2001

Day trips are almost impossible on tour but thanks to a three-day Test it was possible to escape Leeds for a couple of hours and drive through the North York Moors on the way to Whitby, a small Yorkshire fishing and holiday village

My old club in West Yorkshire is having a crisis, although something always seems to be going wrong

The players’ viewing balcony is right next to the press box at Headingley and it was fascinating to watch Michael Hussey’s high-energy pre-batting routine

Graham Onions has become a Twitter target for English pop starlet Lily Allen, but soon she might be thinking of the fast bowler when singing her hit song “It’s not fair”.

Leeds is just as rainy as Birmingham and would feel exactly the same if I hadn’t used the city as a second home during three years in England

I was starting to get lost in the city centre this morning when a couple from Stoke pointed me the right way

Tired of writing and thinking about rain

After a week in Cardiff and another at Lord’s, the first day in Edgbaston was a bit of a let down

England are carrying a 13-man squad in Birmingham and those onlookers with sinister minds could wonder about the methods employed by some of the players during their warm-up games of football

Arthur Mailey, the Australian legspinner, journalist and cartoonist, called his biography 10 for 66 and All That for his best figures against Gloucestershire on the 1921 tour

Dear British friends, it’s been so great to get all your texts since Monday

It’s swine flu season and the Australian team has asked one of the touring journalists to stay away from them for three days after a suspected case of the disease

At lunch at the Nursery End you really have no choice where you end up as the crowd river sweeps you along

My first day of a Lord’s Test was in 1991 , as a 13-year-old, and entry was obtained in a particularly Australian way