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The moment cricket widened my boundaries by Michael Simkins
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Cricket saved my childhood. The first time I experienced the unique thrill of feeling my hands perfectly timing a leather ball off a piece of sprung willow was, until the meeting of my first girlfriend some 10 years later, my most sensuous experience writes Michael Simkins Daily Telegraph.
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Genius of Brian Lara hailed by Wisden
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You don’t really want to remember great players like this: Brian Lara filling his boots, not with runs but dollars, in the fledgeling Indian Cricket League at a far-flung cricketing outpost on the outskirts of Chandigarh, the surroundings of Panchkula more scrub than stadium writes Mike Atherton in Wisden 2008 Timesonline.
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New Zealand will always be proud of Stephen Fleming
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Stephen Fleming leaves the stage at the end of this test and he might well have spent the greater part of the first day here in Napier thanking his lucky stars that Daniel Vettori did not win the toss and bat first. At least that is what one might assume given the way things turned out for England’s batsmen in that dreadful morning session but maybe Fleming would have been New Zealand’s equivalent of Kevin Pietersen and would therefore have negotiated the day with equanimity writes David Gower,Timesonline.
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A West Indian legend is denied entry
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Learie Constantine was one of the greatest cricketers to come from the West Indies and also a tremendous ambassador for the region. Through the 1930s he played in the Lancashire leagues, establishing a home in Nelson, and he remained in England when the war started, raising funds and working for the Ministry of Labour in Liverpool where he acted as a welfare officer, coordinating with West Indian technicians and trainees on Merseyside writes Martin Williamson
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The great cricket debate - Times writers pick their county dream teams
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Christopher Martin-Jenkins and William Rees-Mogg lead our team of cricket experts who have selected their ultimate XIs from the counties closest to their hearts. The Chief Cricket Correspondent will analyse the entries and declare the strongest county side of all time. It's subjective, contentious and up for discussion.
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Shane Warne's top 50 Cricketers
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My countdown is complete – and no Australian is in the top three – but few can dispute the brilliance of my final top ten says Shane Warne.
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Will England ever recover from their darkest hour?
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But the reason that England ended up a humiliated and broken team comes down to a single hour. It was the most extraordinary passage of cricket that I have seen and one of the most shocking things I have witnessed in any sport. Simon Barnes Timesonline
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