Rotating the strike is a habit, and your club has lost it
The overs where nothing happens are the overs that lose the game.
Everything we have published
Opinion, technique and the arguments about the Laws that your club has every summer. If you want the kit advice instead, that lives on the gear pages.
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It is a run out, it is Law 38.3, and it is fine
The same argument arrives every season, and the Law has been sitting there answering it the whole time.
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The follow-on is a decision, and captains keep ducking it
Two hundred ahead, the option sitting in your pocket, and everybody bats again anyway.
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Your club drops catches because nobody practises catching
Twenty minutes of throwdowns and one volunteer lobbing balls at the slips. That is a warm up.
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In praise of the forward defensive
The least fashionable shot in cricket is still the one that lets you play all the others.
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LBW is five conditions, and your side argues about one of them
Everybody at square leg is certain. Law 36 sets five tests, and the shouting usually covers about one and a half.
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In defence of the nightwatchman
The most mocked call in captaincy is usually right, and the mockery comes from people who have never had to bat at twenty to seven.
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T20 did not ruin test batting
The complaint arrives every summer, usually from somebody watching a collapse. It is wrong, and the reason is more interesting than the complaint.