Six reasons to pick up the August issue of The Cricketer!

India are looking to conquer the final frontier in the August edition of The Cricketer: Virat Kohli and Mohammed Shami are on the cover, eyeing their first five-Test series win in England

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You can buy a copy of the issue online HERE or SUBSCRIBE HERE! Here's what's in the mag...

1. "England’s batsmen face an examination – not only of their technique, but also of their judgment and character, by India’s varied and potent attack"

Mike Brearley is worried about England’s batting compared to New Zealand and India.

2. "It’s questionable whether England have feared any keeper/batsman in the middle order as much since Adam Gilchrist in his pomp"

James Coyne speculates how much damage Rishabh Pant can inflict.

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Mike Brearley looks ahead to the India series

3. "Kohli predictably articulated that it should have been the best of three games, but that’s really like saying if you lose a coin toss, toss again. And now they have five Tests against England to show what they’re really made of"

Simon Hughes reports from the World Test Championship final.

4. "I look at Rory Burns and Dom Sibley bat and I wonder how it got to that. Who is selling the snake oil that got them to that state?"

Mike Selvey says that final showed England how it’s done.

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James Coyne on Rishabh Pant

5. "Today’s insulting innovation is tomorrow’s cherished tradition. Nobody can know whether The Hundred will become the Betamax of cricket formats or the digital streaming norm for a generation, who – wait for it – don’t think like we do"

The Hundred has arrived. To a decidedly mixed reception. Paul Hayward was chief sports writer of The Telegraph and has been Sports Writer of the Year five times. He gives the competition a fair hearing.

6. "Do you recall that Welsh Fire slogan which promised to ‘prove the haters wrong’? Well, those of us who have loved and supported county cricket for decades don’t much like being branded ‘haters’. We’re protectors. You could argue a strong case that the organisers of The Hundred are the haters. The Hundred may well be a Trojan horse designed to destroy the county game by stealth"

George Dobell takes exception to being called a hater because he is worried at what The Hundred will do to county cricket.

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Simon Hughes on the World Test Championship final

Elsewhere... Barney Ronay believes England men’s white‑ball generation is ageing gracefully, Tanya Aldred pays tribute to Heather Knight, former Luton Town and England striker Mick Harford explains why he loves cricket, Paul Edwards writes from Cheltenham, Jeremy Snape is interviewed about his fascinating career on and off the field, and Santokie Nagulendran reports on the West Indies v South Africa Test series.

You can buy a copy of the issue online HERE or SUBSCRIBE HERE

Comments

Posted by Marc Evans on 26/02/2021 at 16:34

The world will not reconnect in the desired way with 2 day test cricket. It's like playing at Wembley on a mud heap. Would not be acceptable. Test cricket is about unfolding drama where conditions give both sides a chance to play cricket with an even balance of bat and ball. Conditions start out favouring the batsmen and end favouring the bowlers. This way everyone gets a chance to contribute.

Posted by Geoffrey L Reilley OAM on 12/10/2020 at 03:14

I am still waiting for my overdue back copies. I appreciate some delay due to disruption by the Coronavirus situation but it seems to be taking an exceptionally long time for postage and delivery to Australia!!

Posted by Les Bone on 02/06/2020 at 17:56

Seeing Bill's comment below. My copy arrived today. I was informed by The Cricketer office when I phoned that there were distribution problems this month. However a cracking issue and George Dobell is again the star columnist as far as I am concerned.

Posted by Bill McMurtrie on 28/05/2020 at 17:24

I have received The Cricketer magazine each month for a long time - initially about 1955. This year's June edition was due to arrive on May 22 (Friday) or soon after. The June edition has not arrived yet (Thursday 28th). Please can you pass the necessary who ever!

Posted by Chris on 20/03/2020 at 13:23

What season?

Posted by Marc Evans on 22/02/2020 at 00:32

Come on Hugh. If you're going to let the guy off the hook like this, after his role in blatantly marginalising of the county championship and thereby the future of test cricket, there's no point to the interview. Harrison and Graves both need to be put under the microscope having screwed up pretty much everything they've touched recently. It's quite clear where they stand and they should be railroaded at every turn to justify their actions with hard yards of logical argument. What hard evidence do they have for any of their recent proclamations about the future direction of the game. They've alienated existing cricket fans in a puerile attempt to create a corporate package to attract mums and tots to a complicated version of a format of the game that we already have successfully operating. Their Hundred is rapidly becoming a farce before it's begun and yet they are allowed to continue their vision with impunity.

Posted by Mr Lloyd Birch on 17/11/2019 at 13:16

Message to James Coyne; What does "Time-poor" mean?

Posted by Tony Trevor on 03/11/2019 at 09:04

In the summer of 1961, our Lincolnshire village had been without a cricket team for several years. We 14 to 17 year old's contacted former committee members in an attempt to resurrect the team. They came up trumps and for the next 50 odd years the sound of leather on willow( together with clink of bails ) rang out from the local playing field at weekends during the season. Up to three teams in different leagues, performed throughout the decades, and then in 2016 it was all over again. As the soccer team had fallen by the wayside some time before, silence reigned over a perfectly good expanse of turf. Oh it still receives a haircut, but that is the only activity that prevails. And there is a perfectly good changing room going spare as well. In time will another group of lads knock on doors asking for help to reform the cricket club (or the soccer team even?) I doubt it. What a shame.

Posted by Marc Evans on 01/11/2019 at 23:40

Giles would never have been appointed if he had any intention of following a different path to the establishment, so whatever he says about prioritising red ball cricket we can take with a pinch of salt. It is merely lip service to a concerned cricket loving public.

Posted by Richard Wells on 20/01/2019 at 16:08

I logged on to do the reader survey but can't find it on the website?

Posted by Carl Jacob on 19/01/2019 at 00:28

The best cricket magazine on the market .

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