England and Wales Cricket Board

Four Day Tests. Are They About Saving or Making Money?

Why are sports administrators so hellbent on change?  Is this their way of making sure that when they move onto the next job they have something to put on their resume? That they oversaw a particular change, irrespective as to

Time to Pay Attention

Frequently Sport is built around myths. Today some of the ‘myths’ are in fact well planned and orchestrated to sway opinion. In a world where shortened games of the sports we love are becoming the norm, there are plenty of

The Beauty of Sport

In the past two months two sporting World Cups have come to an end and it is fair to say both were a resounding success. So why are so many sports hell-bent on trying to convince sports fans that new

Four Day Tests? You Must Have Peebles in your Head

It was the cricket writer Ian Peebles who wrote back in the 1960’s that when it came to new International teams being given Test Cricket status he thought they should be given an abbreviated version than the standard five days.