Ireland

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.

Making Sure The Best Are Indeed The Best

With the birth of the internet we were all told that we had to have a website, that this was our ‘shop window.’ Then with the birth of social media everyone and every company had to have ‘a social presence.’

The Sore Points of Hosting

What is it they say about the best laid plans of mice and men? No matter how carefully you plan an event, and how many people check and double check that everything is in place and that there will be

Cricket’s One Big Test

A common trend in today’s world is for companies to bring in “specialists” to give them advice as to how they can do things better. Sporting organisations are no different. Just as coaches and athletes will look at new training

Time to Review the Reviewers

The opening lines of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” could easily have been written with match officials in mind. “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust