When trickery was afoot (Cricinfo)

Published in Cricinfo Magazine, September 2010 Most childhood myths endure for longer than they should. Some are never forgotten. So it has been with me in the matter of Bishan Singh Bedi, the Sardar of spin and the most prolific of India’s famed quartet of the sixties and seventies. Once mythical status had been bestowed [...]

Goose on the Barbie (Cricinfo)

Published in Cricinfo, July 2009 David Morgan, President of the ICC might as well have been smirking in a military jacket sporting epaulets as he leaned back in his plush chair, stroking a cat, as he unveiled his latest threats to the game of cricket last month. “We are examining whether Test match cricket can [...]

Oh, for one more Welshman in Cardiff… (Cricinfo)

Published in Cricinfo, July 2009 As all those rugby loving Welshmen in Cardiff last week, perplexed by the unexpected opening act of an age old tradition of the island watched their city taken over by cricket, a lad from nearby Morriston, Swansea in Wales was the one who was so poignantly missing out there on [...]