Cricket
Those we love, and those we love to hate
Sweet dreams are made of this
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too
Singing the Blues
The Varsity Match and Boat Race are no longer part of our sporting conversation
Bowling Warney
The King of Spin proved himself a custodian of the game long ago, on a summer’s day in Croydon
5 Live’s cull of the cultured
There has been a revolution in the beeb’s sports coverage
This history of sport fails to bowl over
An inadequate night watchmen of the genre
Winning and losing
Emma Raducanu is a worthy winner of SPOTY — but will she continue her impressive rise?
Crisis at the crease
We need a new mission to save English cricket from the men in suits
Hopes turn to Ashes
At this year’s series, bubbles will mean not Veuve Clicquot but protocols designed to ensure that the ball is all anyone catches Down Under
The ECB fails to deliver
A horrible split is emerging in the English game where one side fears the other is deliberately plotting the destruction of county cricket