AOC’s pocket pedagogue Sam Stow plucks another handful of happenings from cricket’s tree of knowledge. To say this week has been busy would be an understatement. The AOC was a hive of activity on Monday and Tuesday as we prepared to send another issue of The World’s Best Cricket Magazine™ to print, and then of [...]
In his latest trip, Richard H Thomas is keeping up with the Joneses as he pays tribute to a legendary England allrounder. Ian Botham … batted “like every boy and man in the land of dreams,” according to former Northants skipper Keith Andrew. Of course, Headingley ‘81 dominates the CV but there were so many [...]
Misty-eyed nostalgia merchant and AOC editor Phil Walker looks at the World XIs of the past, with a view to the future, in The Grubber this week. In 1965, on a charter flight from London to Scarborough, three cricketers got to talking. Conrad Hunte of the West Indies, Hanif Mohammad from Pakistan and India’s Nawab [...]
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Game Changer: Broad Sword Cuts Down Pakistan
Stuart Broad’s half-century on day three in Abu Dhabi swung the match firmly in England’s favour, says AOC editor Phil Walker.
In amongst the match-changing flurry unleashed by Stuart Broad on the morning of day three in Abu Dhabi, one shot shuddered into the fence at extra cover with such uncomplicated brilliance that the mystique of Saeed Ajmal was mocked in a single blow. (more…)