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Short Formats of Sport May End Up Being The Short Straw For Some

Sport should be black and white, as after all there are usually winners and there are losers; occasionally honours are shared. In some sports where the result is based on a judges opinion it can be subjective, and history is

Is The Centralised Contract The Cause Of England’s Cricketing Woes?

Cricket has always been seen as being quintessentially English. England has however evolved, and that belief, if it were ever true, is now more questionable than ever. If cricket was seen as the sport that defined a country, the English

Moving Out of Home

For many generations Lord’s has always been the home of cricket. If you were English there was never any doubt that it was. Just as every young boy, and now girl, wants to play at Wembley if they play football

Technique is the Best Form of Safety.

It was inevitable that in this world where few are prepared to accept responsibility for their own actions that sport has to protect itself by making moves to ensure the safety of those who play it, but are some of

Risking it on one turn of pitch-and-toss

Once again we have sports administrators tampering with the traditions of a game, simply because they are unable to either make or back up decisions. It was announced in the last few days that the mandatory coin toss is to