SIMON BARNES: It’s time to take down the goalposts and measure out 22 paces. All the technology in the world can't affect the annual tilt of the Earth towards the sun, and that brings us spring every year. And cricket.

09/04/2025 | Simon Barnes | All Members-Only | Features | Premium | News |

SIMON BARNES looks at the most important roles in sport, from NFL quarterbacks to football player-managers, and concludes that captaining a Test team takes more out of you than any other

16/02/2025 | Simon Barnes | All Members-Only | Features | Premium | News | International | England |

The Cricketer presents a 12-part series of the greatest captains to play county cricket from our archive as we prepare to induct a new addition. In part two SIMON BARNES profiles Middlesex's 'ice cold' leader Mike Brearley

16/11/2024 | Simon Barnes | Features | News | Middlesex Men | County Championship |

SIMON BARNES: The ball whispered into Taylor’s gloves, the timing, the give of the hands, the extraordinary affinity between the player and the thing played

28/03/2019 | Simon Barnes | Features |

SIMON BARNES wonders how the unofficial ‘England’ teams who went to South Africa in the 1980s were forgiven so easily...

06/03/2019 | Simon Barnes | Features |

SIMON BARNES: Failure becomes a plague that sweeps through the little community of the team until it seems that each individual player is actively seeking to bring about his own and everybody else’s destruction. And that is what we call a collapse

20/08/2018 | Simon Barnes | Opinion | England |