If gambling is a fool’s game, then waging money on the England one-day team must be the preserve of a lunatic. Quite literally anything could happen tomorrow, including, unfortunately, a washout. Strange but true: since the start of 2007, England have...

Last month, SPIN magazine ran an interview with Andy Caddick, recently departed from the county scene. He didn’t hold back. This month, he returns as a ’star columnist’. Smart move. Character assasinations are doled out to Luke Wright, Alastair Cook,...

The England team is currently littered with stories of comeback triumph and instant success. Andrew Strauss saved his Test career at the last possible moment, then went on to lift the Ashes as captain. Graeme Swann is still less than a year old as a...

I’ve always had an unjustifiable dislike of Dubai. I’ve hated it from afar and, like an ignorant westerner, poured scorn on it whenever I could for no other reason than hating what it stood for: a utopia of peacockery for the world’s rich. My...

He’s back. And international cricket is surely better off with the return of Sree Sresanth’s mad-cap antics, not to mention his game-changing contributions. His most recent on-pitch effort, has put India in a winning position – on a pitch which looks...