With the England Test team struggling this summer, The Cricketer launches its Red Alert campaign in the September issue
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"The ECB favour The Hundred, the counties prefer the Blast, but the English cricketing public craves the Test game. Championship matches in spring and autumn are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard. Our eyes are very much on what fixtures, and when, will be going on our legendary wallchart next spring."
"If you don’t allow time for your players to prepare properly, if you prioritise white-ball cricket at the expense of the first-class game and cram the schedule with so much cricket that players break, England will lose home Test series."
Red Alert
At least England still have Joe Root. Simon Hughes says he will go down as England’s greatest modern batsman.
"More than half of Wood’s deliveries were bouncers, and this total was supplemented by several from other bowlers. The Indian tail-enders swished and ducked, slogged and carved. They were courageous, but could have got out any ball; could have been hit almost any ball."
Simon Hughes on Joe Root
"Is it possible to talk about the startlingly tin-eared £2.1m bonus awarded to Tom Harrison and his fellow ECB executives without also having to talk about The Hundred a bit? Sadly not. Whatever the truth, ‘the optics’ on this absolutely stink."
"As a parent and broadcaster I feel more strongly about it. The situation is a joke. Even with the extra half an hour the overs are still not being bowled."
Mike Brearley's words of wisdom for the England Test captain
Elsewhere... Former Essex off-spinner and ECB administrator David Acfield reveals how T20 nearly didn’t happen; Alice Capsey is profiled by Nick Friend alongside Kate Cross’ latest column; James Coyne interviews Enid Bakewell, possibly England’s greatest all-round women’s cricketer and still playing at 80; Paul Parker explains the cameo he played in the 1981 Ashes and how he was introduced to the game Wibbly Wobbly during The Oval Test; Tanya Aldred announces the winner of our UK’s Greenest Ground award; Nick Owen pays tribute to Mike Hendrick; and Gideon Haigh peers through his Window in his popular monthly feature: it’s an issue not to be missed…
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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
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