Mahendra Singh Dhoni was praised for his sportsmanship in reprieving Ian Bell - even though the India skipper would have been within his rights to uphold his appeal for a run-out against the England batsman... more
As the first Lord's Test match gets under way today, a copy of Cricket, Wonderful Cricket, a new book by former financial PR man and sometime Evening Standard columnist John Duncan, lands on City Spy's desk... more
Mild-mannered Miles Jupp has certainly had a good innings recently. He has become a familiar face on panel shows and made a splash in the BBC sitcom Rev as lay reader Nigel... more
Miles Jupp grew up in a Hampstead vicarage and studied Divinity — now he’s out to prove that impeccable manners are no bar to a career in comedy
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So for one more time, for one last time, is it to be Mark Ramprakash for England? The heart says yes while the head demands that the selectors resist the calls of sentimentalists everywhere and say emphatically no.... more
Plans to trial day-night Test cricket, using pink balls, have been backed by an influential group of former players, who fear the five-day game is in "very real danger" of dying... more
More than a dozen former international captains will discuss whether Test cricket should be played under floodlights when they meet at Lord's next week... more
The revelation that train fares in Britain are 50 per cent more expensive than in the rest of Europe can only exasperate passengers whose New Year increases of six per cent for peak-time fares greatly exceeded inflation... more
Andrew Strauss has insisted that unity will not be a problem in his England team after heart-to-heart talks ahead of this week's flight to the Caribbean... more
When star batsman Marcus Trescothick flew home from England’s tours of India and then Australia in 2006, citing ‘family reasons’, the rumour mill went into overdrive.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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