Cricket whites: out of fashion for black Britons
Despite the heroic role models of yesteryear, fewer and fewer black Britons are taking up a cricket bat. Keme Nzerem meets a notable exception.
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So here we go again. The sun has hardly set on England’s home Ashes victory before a new series gets underway in Brisbane. Malcolm Boughen asks if you can have too much of a good thing.
As the second Ashes test opens at Lord’s, the cricket world will be hoping the controversial decision review system (DRS) does not have quite such a central part to play as it did at Nottingham.
He is 19, he is a bowler by trade and a year ago he was plying his trade in a second 11 at Australian club Richmond. Now Ashton Agar is officially an Australian cricketing legend.
With eight South Africans in England’s cricket squad, is it another reflection of the country’s multi-culturalism? Or is nationality a question of identity and not just a matter of convenience?
Despite the heroic role models of yesteryear, fewer and fewer black Britons are taking up a cricket bat. Keme Nzerem meets a notable exception.
There will be no let-up in the cricketing entertainment over the coming months, culminating in the Ashes test series. But before that, erratic England take on an under-estimated New Zealand side.
Police in South Africa are reportedly investigating the discovery of a bloodied cricket bat at the home of Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, following the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Cricket journalist and former president of the Marylebone Cricket Club, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, has died of cancer at the age of 67.
Sachin Tendulkar, widely regarded as the world’s greatest living batsman, announces his retirement from one-day international cricket after winning 463 caps.
As England achieve a dramatic test series victory over India for the first time in 27 years, captain Alastair Cook says his team “can be very proud”.
England cricket captain Andrew Strauss resigns after a troublesome summer on and off the field.
England suffer defeat at Lord’s after an uphill struggle to retain their title as the world’s number one test cricket side.
After reports of Andrew Flintoff’s expletive-strewn outburst at fellow England cricket legend Michael Atherton, Ben Monro-Davies finds out what all the fuss is about.
Amid the sweat, the heat, and the romance of this colonial ground, cricket has ensured that a whole world of sport is absorbed in a game, whilst the fate of up to 40,000 civilians slaughtered on fields on the very same island lie unaddressed and largely unmentioned.
As England’s cricket team sets off for Sri Lanka, Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben De Pear asks whether the tour should be going ahead given the country’s human rights record?