BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra – Test Match Special: Pakistan Tour Match
Pakistan in England, 2016
Pakistan v Somerset
4 July 2016
The County Ground, Somerset
Sport
BBC County Cricket: Specsavers County Championships – Derbyshire v Worcestershire, 20 – 23 June 2016
Radio, Specsavers County Championships, Sport
BBC County Cricket: Royal London One-Day Cup – Middlesex v Hampshire, 7 June 2016
Radio, Royal London One-Day Cup, SportBBC County Cricket commentary
Royal London One-Day Cup
Middlesex v Hampshire
7 June 2016
Radlett, Hertfordshire
BBC County Cricket: Specsavers County Championships – Middlesex v Somerset, 22 – 25 May 2016
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BBC County Cricket: Specsavers County Championships – Gloucs v Glam, 15 – 18 May 2016
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The Roar: The rise of the silent assassins
Features, Print, Sport, The RoarThis World Cup has been a coming of age tournament for T20 cricket, and no one is to thank more for this than the ‘dot-ball annihilators’ of the game.
The Roar: The old boys (and girls) club – T20 XI
Features, Print, Sport, The RoarThe World Twenty20 is underway and, as befitting this form of cricket, it started with a bang.
The West Indies’ Chris Gayle, he of golden bats, misjudged pitch-side comments and a backlift to strike fear in the heart of any bowler, was the man to deliver, bludgeoning an unbeaten century against an excitable England side.
The Roar: Cover the sport, not the spectacle
Features, Print, Sport, The Roar“The Test is to be broadcast on Sky – a first for the women’s game – and both are aware of their roles as ambassadors for women’s sport,” gushed one national newspaper of the women’s Ashes Test last year, triumphantly.
The Cricket Monthly: Keeping up with the Aussies
ESPN Cricinfo, Features, Print, SportEngland were once the gold standard in women’s cricket. No more
“Where were we exactly 10 yrs ago today?” tweeted Clare Connor to her old team-mates the day before the second T20 of the women’s Ashes last year. The former England captain, now head of women’s cricket at the ECB, was alluding to the day England women, after 42 barren years, regained the Ashes in 2005.
The Nightwatchman: County Cricket – A stepping stone or a graveyard?
Features, Print, Sport, The WisdenThe Nightwatchman – The Wisden Cricket Quarterly
The Nightwatchman is a quarterly collection of essays and long-form articles and is available in print and e-book formats.
“A stepping stone or a graveyard?” I was asked of women’s county cricket not so long ago. In the past I would instantly retort that it was just one rung below the international fold, the gap not so big as many imagined. Increasingly scepticism has seeped in. The introduction of the Super League this summer might – perhaps – just bridge the growing divide.
Isabelle Westbury 