Cricket

The myth that cricket is a boring sport is, I believe, only spread by those who have never had the right introduction to the game. Having played and watched the game from a young age, I fell in love with Cricket aged just 8 whilst watching a T20 Blast...

Matthew Cotter With cases and deaths of COVID-19 in India soaring to unprecedented heights, questions arise surrounding the appropriateness of the continuation of the IPL season. It was announced earlier this week that Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and Australian trio Adam Zampa, Andrew Tye, and Kane Richardson would be...

Matthew Cotter With the ever-exciting Indian Premier League (IPL) returning to action this week, here is a quick guide to the tournament and who to look out for when watching… The Indian Premier League is a professional T20 Cricket Tournament established in 2008. T20 is the shortest format of...

In 2018, a new short-form competition was announced by the ECB. Unique to anything Cricket has ever seen, The Hundred was produced to create faster and more exciting matches. Originally proposed to launch in 2020, the competition was postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With the 2021...

Rachel Roberts In the first of a 2-part series, Rachel Roberts highlights the careers of trailblazing Black athletes and those who are following in their footsteps in today’s game. Part 1 focuses on two of the nation’s favourite sports: football and cricket.   Liverpool’s No.10: John Barnes and Sadio...

Joe Holmes-Milner Notts Outlaws beat Surrey by six wickets at Edgbaston to become T20 Blast champions for the second time. Captain Fantastic Dan Christian led from the front as he took 4-23 to help reduce Surrey to 127-7 from sixteen overs. This is captain Christian’s fourth T20 blast title...

Rachel Roberts Nottingham is a proud sporting city, but surprisingly three of it’s largest sporting institutes are all situated along the same spot of the River Trent, no more than a 15-minute walk away from each other. Rachel Roberts offers an overview into the history of these grounds and...