This Sporting Life

Lord’s and ladies

The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward

The Cup and me

My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England

One deuce of a decider

This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you

Racing in revolt

The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform

Sport’s regime changes

Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis

First time thrills

Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains

Sing for victory

The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone

The name game

Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport

Calypso and carnage

A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket

The judge’s verdict

Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing