Covid subs could allow cricket safe return but replacement rules should remain strict | Vic Marks | Sport
England’s Test series against West Indies and Pakistan look ever more likely to happen, albeit behind closed doors. We await...
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Cricket’s obsession with the ball shines on despite sidelining of saliva | Vic Marks | Sport
For the casual observer the discussion about cricket-ball maintenance must seem bizarre given all the other issues surrounding the sport:...
English summer: protocols, a 30-man squad and maybe even some cricket | Vic Marks | Sport
The advent of 30 names – not an official squad, as Ashley Giles has been keen to emphasise, but a...
1970 and Stop the Tour: English cricket’s last summer of chaos | Vic Marks | Sport
From a purely cricketing perspective the summer of 1970 was probably anticipated more eagerly than the 2020 season, whereupon there...
Back in the swing: the simple joy of returning to the golf course | Vic Marks | Sport
The fairway was newly mown and welcoming; a yellow flag, 350 yards away, flickered in the chill breeze descending off...
Experimentation may be the only option in this stalled summer of English cricket | Vic Marks | Sport
The talk is of misconduct, match-fixing, potential bankruptcies and tour cancellations when after two weeks of blissful sunshine at the...
Sunshine and wickets: how the county cricket season may have begun | Vic Marks | Sport
Exclusive: the cricket roundup stolen from the Ambridge Observer, which reports on a coronavirus-free world … The sun shone, the...
Wisden 2020 offers plenty of scope for cricket-loving self-isolators | Vic Marks | Sport
Here is a timely arrival for cricket lovers. What better way to self-isolate than to escape into some of the...
England cricketers willing to dig deep but county game will be hit hard | Vic Marks | Sport
The last time I was in the Lord’s museum I spotted a letter of 1981 with the familiar Somerset CCC...
Cricket could use its enforced pause to find a way forward | Vic Marks | Sport
September 2019. Was there ever a better time to be a professional cricketer in England? The game was buzzing after...
