The changing face of TV coverage and the Ashes
As BT Sport prepare to broadcast the Ashes series live for the first time, PHILIP BARKER looks back at how TV coverage of the great cricketing duel between England and Australia has evolved since the...
View ArticleWatching with my heroes: a tale of a journeyman cricketer
Stuart Simmonds may not have made it as a top cricketer but his tales with ball and bat make for an entertaining book, reviewed by NICK TOWNSEND Stuart Simmonds was a dreamer, fixated by a desire to...
View ArticleICC offer workshops and $500 prize to young cricket writers
The Cricket Writers Club have been tasked by the ICC to deliver a series of workshops for aspiring young cricket writers during the forthcoming World Cup in England and Wales from 30 May to July 14. As...
View ArticleCricket Writers’ Club name Mitchell first woman chair
Broadcaster Alison Mitchell is the first woman chair of the Cricket Writers’ Club. Test Match Special regular Mitchell made history when she became Britain’s first female cricket commentator and she is...
View ArticleCricket past, present and future on the agenda for Engel and Kynaston
Guardian cricket correspondent Matthew Engel and historian David Kynaston will be talking about cricket past, present and future next month. Engel is also former editor of Wisden while Kynaston has...
View ArticleRIP Charles Randall, ‘diligent and polite’ Daily Telegraph sports writer
FUNERAL DETAILS UPDATE: Monday, February 24 Christ Church Radlett (Watling Street, WD7 7JJ) and afterwards at Porter’s Park Golf Club, Radlett (Shenley Hill, WD7 7AZ). Dress code will be club ties. No...
View ArticleCricket Writers’ Club awards for Crawley, Cook, Ecclestone and Bowser
England batsmen past and present, and a world number one spinner were among the winners of the 2020 Cricket Writers’ Club player awards. Zak Crawley took the CWC NV Play Young Cricketer of the Year...
View ArticleCricket Writers’ Club release open letter in appeal to ECB to re-think jobs cull
The Cricket Writers’ Club have appealed to the ECB to rethink cost-saving plans which would slash county cricket coverage and involve a mass cull of their Reporters’ Network. In an open letter,...
View ArticleThe Cricketer raises its bat to a swashbuckling century
By PHILIP BARKER “The popularity of and interest in cricket not only here, but in every part of the world where Englishmen are gathered was never greater than at the present time.” With these words...
View ArticleBairstow’s year to remember recognised by Cricket Writers’
By Cricket Writers’ Club Jonny Bairstow was the inaugural winner of the Bob Willis Trophy – introduced this year to mark England’s player of the year, male or female – while there was recognition for...
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