Rob Steen

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

When averages strike out

Strike rates tell us how often a bowler achieves his aim; averages tell us the price he has to pay for every success

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

The beauty of ugly

Chanderpaul seems oblivious to it all, disdainful of such niceties, and, crucially, wholly un-self-conscious

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Of necessary evils

All today’s antics achieved, for this less than dispassionate observer, was to underline why this town ain’t big enough for two necessary evils.

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Double the fun

If the almighty US cultural dollar is valued as much as it seems to be, they could always go the whole hog and trim XIs to Xs and have nine alternate innings per side a la baseball, each expiring with the fall of a wicket

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Why Twenty20 vision is impaired

Much as I’d love to see such games played over two innings per side – cricket without second chances is like a BLT sandwich without the B - I have few quibbles with the philosophy or the format

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Saluting the equivocal Englishmen

One is generally regarded as a byword for nerdiness and prima donnaesque truculence, the other as the flat-track bully who couldn’t stop Australians kicking sand in his face, the underachievers’ underachiever

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

The man who should have been king

Adam Hollioake led a star-deprived, profoundly maverick but one-for-all XI to victory in the 1997-98 Champions Trophy, the only one-day pot England have won in a tournament featuring more than three sides

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

From Stan to Ollie

The first time I saw him bat for England, I saw Stan Laurel in him, the same rebellious tufts of hair, the same vaguely bemused expression, the same understated command of his craft

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

The Bob Marley Test

Cricket with an uninspiring West Indies is akin to soccer blighted by a charmless, defensive-minded Brazil – a sport incapable of fulfilling its potential

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

The downside of heroism

Had it not been for the torpor and ennui instigated by May and Cowdrey in 1957, it is tempting to wonder whether the clamour for the limited-overs revolution would have been so fervent

25-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Sarah Taylor, superstar

The time will come for female cricketers. Just you wait and see

20-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

Frank Keating and the art of grace and affection

They don't make them like him anymore; blame the nature of modern sports media

06-Feb-2013•Rob Steen

What pop music can teach cricket

Is the paying public interested in the cricket the ICC is putting out?

23-Jan-2013•Rob Steen

My 2013 wishlist

More Tests, a better New Zealand, more power to Kallis, and Dravid for ICC chairman

09-Jan-2013•Rob Steen

Behind the facade of England's fifties

A new book looks at the less-than-pleasant backdrop to England's dominance in the post-war years

29-Dec-2012•Rob Steen

Salute the messenger

In a year of great performances, let's not forget the brave efforts of Tony Palladino in outing fixing in county cricket

26-Dec-2012•Rob Steen

Being undroppable

A legend agonises over his life's quandaries

12-Dec-2012•Rob Steen

Homage to catatonia

In praise of epic solo batting efforts - the ultimate acts of invidualism in a team cause

29-Nov-2012•Rob Steen

India's board flexes its muscles because it can

How else to explain its lack of consistency over granting accreditation to the press?

15-Nov-2012•Rob Steen

Just how wrong is the BCCI?

The Indian board is easily - often deservedly - painted as a villain, but often it is all too convenient to do so

31-Oct-2012•Rob Steen

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