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My Eagar and my Morris long ago

My Eagar and my Morris long ago

When and why did cricket photography start purveying bubblegum?

25-Jul-2017•Sharda Ugra

An immortal at The Oval

An immortal at The Oval

Only a child's wild imagination could have conceived an innings like Kevin Pietersen's 158 against Australia in 2005

01-Jul-2016•Simon Barnes

Call in Colin

Call in Colin

At 41, Cowdrey gamely took on Lillee and Thomson, because how could he not?

02-Jun-2016•Simon Barnes

Nas not gonna take it

Nas not gonna take it

When the England captain turned a chorus of boos into a revolution

02-May-2016•Simon Barnes

My black teacher

My black teacher

Watching Garry Sobers dominate England in 1963 was a lesson in race relations and in cricket

01-Apr-2016•Simon Barnes

Here's Harmy

Here's Harmy

At the start of the 2005 Ashes series, there was thrilling anticipation and there was hope

02-Mar-2016•Simon Barnes

The pricking of pomposity

The pricking of pomposity

Murali's 16 wickets at The Oval in 1998 were not only match-winning, they were epoch-changing

02-Feb-2016•Simon Barnes

Leave it to Beefy

Leave it to Beefy

The 1980 Jubilee Test was all Botham

04-Jan-2016•Simon Barnes

Kris Srikkanth's shot of hope

Kris Srikkanth's shot of hope

An imagination-embellished stroke that turned the course of the 1983 World Cup final

02-Dec-2015•Simon Barnes

He'll get you one-handed

He'll get you one-handed

At Headingley in 1984, Malcolm Marshall summed up the fierce and terrible beauty of one of the greatest teams of them all

02-Nov-2015•Simon Barnes

Shane from the dead

Shane from the dead

The first of ten favourite moments in cricket: Adelaide 2006, a match that turned from dull to dazzling in an instant

02-Oct-2015•Simon Barnes

The batting life

The batting life

It's about shame and guilt and escaping from them

02-Sep-2015•Simon Barnes

Federer and cricket

Federer and cricket

Is sporting beauty a moral virtue? Or a quality to be distrusted?

03-Aug-2015•Simon Barnes

Ten years after

Ten years after

The memories of 2005 are still heady - and memories are all that matter

02-Jul-2015•Simon Barnes

The art of the inevitable

The art of the inevitable

There is a tide in the affairs of games when an improbability becomes a certainty

03-Jun-2015•Simon Barnes

Spring is here

Spring is here

And with it cricket. Or is it the other way round?

04-May-2015•Simon Barnes

Sport is a vicious monster we make

Sport is a vicious monster we make

The games we follow are brutal, unforgiving and unjust, but we wouldn't have them any other way

07-Apr-2015•Simon Barnes

The gift of timing

The gift of timing

All very good performers come alive on the biggest stages; the very great ones find their very best at those times

10-Mar-2015•Simon Barnes

The bronze cup

The bronze cup

Rather than run a futile race for third, why doesn't cricket simply stage the best event it can?

04-Feb-2015•Simon Barnes

Death of a sportsman

Death of a sportsman

The line between risk and responsibility is terribly thin, yet sport must tread it

06-Jan-2015•Simon Barnes

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