DieHard Cricket Fans

2nd May 2007. Australia had just won the ODI World Cup in Barbados and they were on their way home via London Heathrow. Second highes...

It's amazing how a players stock can rise when they're not even involved in a game of cricket. It's like the value of gold ri...

2014 might seem a long way off to start planning your summer holidays, but the ECB have shown county cricket fans the shape of summers to c...

"People try to put us down," rock band The Who used to wail in their 60's anthem, My Generation. Ravi Bopara must know what t...

The series between England and South Africa that starts at the Kia Oval on Thursday, is the most eagerly awaited, non-Ashes series I can re...

When I was a lad, plying my trade in the Jersey Under 15's football league, I was a reliable left back for my home Parish, Grouville. I...

Kevin Pietersen announced his retirement from limited overs cricket on Thursday and inevitably England fans and observers alike went into m...

And so England's international cricketing summer is up and running, with the West Indies facing the best test team in the world at th...

Very nearly 9 years ago to the day, a young Lancastrian with a wild mane that made KP's "badger mullet" look like a short b...

The end of the football season showed us cricket lovers a few things. One is the delight we can all share in the fact that a Joey Barton ...

One of the biggest challenges for any county cricket club is having a squad that can be competitive in all three disciplines of the game. C...

When the rain hit the borough of Eastleigh last Friday it seemed as though it may never stop. It did of course, for a bit, but with only te...

Hants (156 & 204/8) beat Glamorgan (103/9 dec & 256) by 2 wickets at SWALEC stadium, Cardiff.   In sport, winning is everything but...

It's not so long ago David Balcombe was merely a peripheral figure in the Hampshire squad, unable to stake a claim for first team actio...

David Balcombe's 11/119 was the best figures of his career Hampshire captain Jimmy Adams spoke before this season about laying ...

Indian fans and pundits alike were hurt by their teams’ capitulation in England this summer to the extent they named the return series tha...