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Remember the 70 and 80s? Remember cricket in those decades?
22.09.26Features
By Monday morning Cricket Archive had already placed Lancashire’s 316-run hammering by Northamptonshire neatly between the 321-run stuffing by Kent at Tunbridge Wells in 1910 and the 302-run shellacking by Essex at Clacton in 1937. In other words, this latest loss is the Red Rose’s second-worst-ever in terms of runs to another county.
25.08.26Opinion
Every sporting event disrupts the town or city in which it is held. For the most part, the moderate chaos is accepted and taken in good part. People living in the streets around Manchester United’s ground know that 75,000 spectators will be in the vicinity on perhaps 25 or 30 days per year. At other times, the place is merely a tourist attraction.
17.07.26Features
It was one of those occasions when it was fine for people to be satisfied with themselves – and what they had achieved. One of those occasions when being pleased with yourself didn’t carry connotations of smugness or ignorance.
12.07.26Features
“I’ll be very surprised if she’s not playing for England in however many years’ time – you heard it here first.”
08.07.26Features
You might have noticed that Lancashire have been winning a few cricket matches lately. Nothing too spectacular as yet – it hardly needs saying this has been tough season – but three Vitality Blast victories on the bounce have given the Red Rose a sniff of qualification for the knockout stages of the competition.
02.07.26Pro Tips
You do not have to care about language to find clichés annoying. Lancashire supporters have had a gutful of people telling them that their team’s opponents are allowed to play well. A dollop of unfair mindedness might even be refreshing.
18.06.26Opinion
“This is what can happen,” said Peter Moores. “This is part of it.” We were standing on the away team’s balcony at Lord’s on September 7, 2012. Lancashire’s men had just lost to Middlesex by 109 runs and had been relegated to the second division of the County Championship.
25.05.26Opinion
Let’s begin with the briefest of quizzes. Who is speaking about whom here? “He’s done incredibly well, and shows no signs of slowing down. He’s showed no signs of fatigue at all in his skill set and quality. It’s a privilege to have him around.”
21.05.26Opinion
We are about to enter the months of tents and waving colours; that period at the heart of the season when some first-class counties, whether through need or desire, take matches away from their headquarters to grounds which are normally used for club or school games.
14.05.26Features
A shade under a month ago, in my review of Lancashire’s defeat of Derbyshire I wrote that the losers say it best. Now please consider the edited highlights of Steven Croft’s comments after Lancashire had lost to Middlesex on Monday.
13.05.26Opinion
Instead of “Good morning, Paul,” which was Chris Rimmer’s usual greeting around 9.30, I’ve had to get used to “Nah then, mucker!” And “mucker” is by far the politest, least colloquial, epithet Garry has deployed so far.
12.05.26Features
The pile-on started early. “Declaration backfired big time” was one of the politer comments below the line of the main reports on Monday evening. The captain, his bowlers, his batsmen, the coaches, the Emirates Old Trafford stewards – even a felt giraffe, for all I know – came in for heaps.
29.04.26Opinion
Writing this piece has reminded me how much I enjoyed those four days and it sounds like I wasn’t on me tod.
15.04.26Opinion
You didn’t need to be born or raised in Lancashire to hope Chilly’s men could do it. Having once changed trains at Clitheroe was enough.
05.04.26History
“I’ve got tickets for all five Ashes Tests,” said my friend. “It’ll be the trip of a lifetime.”
22.03.26Features
“He had this knack, a little bit like Simon Kerrigan, that when he got into a good place, you thought you were going to get a wicket every ball." Former Lancashire wicketkeeper John Stanworth on Ian Folley.
09.03.26Features
“Lloyd, when not in action, tends to shamble about like some amiable Paddington Bear,” wrote John Arlott in 1983. “[He is] capable, though, of exploding into action like a roused panther.”
01.03.26Features
Unless you read the match reports and listen to the testimony of team-mates, it is easy to overlook the widely-held belief that Edrich was one of Lancashire’s bravest batsmen, or the persuasive argument that had he been skipper throughout 1956, the county’s wait for an outright Championship win would have lasted a mere 22 years instead of 77.
19.02.26Features
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