Article: Cricket: Just look at what they've done to the grand old game of English cricket...(Sport)

Article: A Lord's prayer England's cricketers must start making themselves ...
Evening Standard - London;  July 20, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... you set foot on the field. You cannot beat walking out of the famous pavilion in front of a big Lord's crowd to play in a Test match. But the problems with Lord's occur before the match even begins." Familiarity can breed, if not contempt, then irritation ...

Article: New spin on Test Match Special is timely; It's an ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  September 24, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... which has swept through Britain has reached an institution which many thought was beyond the forces of change. Until now Test Match Special has fended off the advances of progress, like the small Gaulish colony which held out against the Roman invaders ...

Article: CRICKET - TEST MATCH: Home truths of a halfway ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 10, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... qualities when analysing the state of English cricket below first-class level, and when ... England players have a day off after a Test match. After five of the most physically ... are right in saying the salvation of English cricket lies partly in improving personnel ...

Article: Cricket: Don't forget the die-hards; TWENTY20: THE FUTURE In the ...
Birmingham Mail (England);  June 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... what the researchers come up with. What is clear is that English cricket is in deep introspection right now. About funding. Entertainment ... 1938, the MCC, which in those unenlightened days, ran English cricket, world cricket and, it seemed, the world, was digesting ...

Article: Cricket: Don't forget the die-hards ; TWENTY20: THE FUTURE In the ...
Birmingham Mail;  June 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... what the researchers come up with. What is clear is that English cricket is in deep introspection right now. About funding. Entertainment ... 1938, the MCC, which in those unenlightened days, ran English cricket, world cricket and, it seemed, the world, was digesting ...

English cricket team captain Andrew Strauss tosses a ball, ...
Getty Images;  February 28, 2009 ;     243 words ... ... DUNAND Getty Images 02-28-2009 English cricket team captain Andrew Strauss tosses ... Full Size JPG (1719 KB) English cricket team captain Andrew Strauss tosses ... on the third day of the fourth test match between England and the West ...

Article: Can anyone save English cricket?
The Independent - London;  August 10, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... is playing a Test match. Friends and ... the future of English cricket. But when he ... who might save English cricket. When I interviewed ... television rights and Test match receipts. This ... pounds 1m from the English Cricket Board. Without ...