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Schoolboy Error
If state school cricket is the neglected child of English cricket; private school cricket is the spoiled one. Both have unhealthy ramifications for our game as Cameron Ponsonby explains … Recently, I read an article that referred to a county offering a player a three-year contract before he had even left school; “It marked the certainty of his ability, but also the county’s trust in the [private] school that they would sufficiently prepare [him] for the professional game.” In other words...
England Bounce Back
Here’s Cam with his gut reaction to day 5 and his feelings about the Test match in general. Many thanks to Cam for filling in for James today … I’ll be honest. This is my first one of these. And as I sit at my kitchen table, scratching my head for the searing insight I’ve been entrusted to deliver, I’m coming up short. England won, yes. But in reality, what have we learnt from this Test match that we didn’t know before? Ben Stokes, who is very good at cricket, was very good at...
Watch The Ball. Play It Late. Don’t Be Scared.
Today new writer Cameron Ponsonby talks to Owais Shah, Michael Carberry, and Andrew Hall about facing genuine pace. What tips do they have for amateur cricketers? And is the usual advice a panacea? When I was about 14, my club ran sessions for “players of promise” at the Oval where they’d pair a batter and a bowler together, assign you a coach from Surrey, and watch you both flourish into outstanding cricketers. That was the plan anyway. I was paired with a guy a couple of years older than me...
