Rob Steen

Sports writer and senior lecturer in sports journalism at the University of Brighton

How soon before broadcasters have a say in selection?

Television has benefited cricket, but it is a relationship that can get far too cosy for the game's good

22-Feb-2012•Rob Steen

In praise of zero tolerance

What cricket can learn from baseball when it comes to rooting out corruption

08-Feb-2012•Rob Steen

Should we give the doosra a little leeway?

What if spinners were allowed to flex their arms 20 degrees while bowling?

25-Jan-2012•Rob Steen

Beauty? I'll take edge, thanks

Rivalries become interesting when there's spice in them. Let's hope England and Pakistan won't disappoint like India and Australia have this season

12-Jan-2012•Rob Steen

All hail the men of the year

Time to salute the players who made 2011 in cricket the year it was

14-Dec-2011•Rob Steen

Punter's still burning bright

Ricky Ponting is intensely competitive but also unlikely to stay on if he thinks he can no longer contribute to the team cause

30-Nov-2011•Rob Steen

The finest non-white South African player of his generation

Basil D'Oliveira may have become a symbol of the battle against apartheid, but he was a more than handy player as well

21-Nov-2011•Rob Steen

South Africa v Australia? Now that's tasty

The two teams have been eyeballing each other since South Africa returned to international cricket. Theirs is the best rivalry today because it is a battle of wills

16-Nov-2011•Rob Steen

A sharp mind, a tormented soul

Peter Roebuck was determined as a player, a fearless internationalist as a cricket writer, and desperately conflicted as a man

15-Nov-2011•Rob Steen

Fiery, contradictory, all-too-human Fred

Trueman's latest biographer does a better job of fleshing out his subject than his more illustrious predecessors - perhaps because he didn't know him as well

12-Nov-2011•Rob Steen

When silence is mightier than the pen

Swann's criticism of Pietersen in his autobiography is another in a long list of players antagonising others in print - never been a wise thing to do

03-Nov-2011•Rob Steen

The privilege of youth

Two promising new fast bowlers have given cricket watchers everywhere cause for cheer

20-Oct-2011•Rob Steen

The star who might have been

People remember Dilley with the bat at Headingley, but he was a genuinely quick bowler who could have gone far if only he had some more support in his mid-80s pomp

07-Oct-2011•Rob Steen

More meaningful T20, please

The shortest format is cricket at its most elemental and daring, and we need more of it - but only those games where people can be bothered to care about who wins

05-Oct-2011•Rob Steen

Presenting the county awards for 2011

First-class cricket in England has been bright-eyed and rosy-cheeked for the last few seasons. And the one just concluded was truly special

21-Sep-2011•Rob Steen

Better Galle than blandness

Why is a pitch that does a little too much deemed so much worse than one that's dead from day one?

07-Sep-2011•Rob Steen

Being Andrew Strauss

There are more worthy goals ahead of England's captain still, but will he have the appetite for them, or the fortitude to keep self-doubt at bay?

24-Aug-2011•Rob Steen

Clocks be damned

The seemingly outdated concept actually makes perfect sense in deciding the Test championship

10-Aug-2011•Rob Steen

The case for substitutes

Why is cricket so resistant to permitting like-for-like replacements for players who are under-par and underperforming?

27-Jul-2011•Rob Steen

The most compelling Test of them all

Context, quality, balance and drama make a Test memorable. Is there any one game that ticks all boxes?

13-Jul-2011•Rob Steen

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