Tales & treasures from cricket’s glorious past
Isabelle Westbury
The cricket broadcaster and former Middlesex captain on a summer which marked a turning point in cricket’s balance of power, and the year she turned English
Features
All Out Cricket: Generation veneration – county cricket’s vintage blend
Features, Print, Sport, Wisden Cricket Monthly2017 has been a vintage year for vintage talents. From Trott’s trio of Championship tons to Sanga’s sumptuous sign-off, old stagers have graced county cricket this term. But what keeps them coming back for more, long after the international lights have gone out?
Sky Sports: Kia Super League Finals Day – England’s future looks in good hands
Features, Print, Sky News/Sky Sports, SportThis summer’s Kia Super League has shown glimpses of what England might produce in years to come, says Isabelle Westbury, and a new era is in sight…
Sky News: Women’s Ashes – Kia Super League season can build on World Cup momentum
Features, Print, Sky News/Sky Sports, SportIf the Women’s World Cup left you wanting more drama then look no further than the Kia Super League, which returns on Thursday, says Isabelle Westbury…
Prospect Magazine: Getting over Gatlin for the greater good
Doping, Features, Miscellaneous, Print, Prospect Magazine, Sports LawWe are a society which purports to endorse rehabilitation. So why do we condemn those who have fallen afoul of strict doping regulations?
The Cricketer: Radio killed the video star
Features, Print, Sport, The CricketerAlmost forty years ago The Buggles topped the music charts with their smash hit, “Video Killed the Radio Star”. A nostalgic hark back to a lost era, the single epitomised a wider anxiety towards impending technological change. Just two years after the single was released MTV, the American music television channel, was launched and the song’s lyrical prophecy appeared to have come true – pictures had come and broken radio’s heart.
The Hindustan Times: India’s run timed to perfection
Features, Print, SportIndia will face England in the final of the 2017 Women’s Cricket World Cup and they will be heavily dependent on their skipper Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur.
All Out Cricket: A turning point for women’s cricket
Features, Print, Sport, Wisden Cricket MonthlyThe 2017 Women’s World Cup marks another sea change in attitudes to women’s sport in the UK, writes BBC commentator and former Middlesex Women’s skipper Isabelle Westbury.
The Cricket Paper: Behind the scenes – women in county cricket
Features, Interviews, Print, Sport, The Cricket Paper“The business of sport is dominated by men.” Clare Connor, director of England women’s cricket at the ECB and the only female member of the ICC’s Cricket Committee, wasn’t spouting feminist opinion when she made this statement, merely a simple truth. The Women’s World Cup is just around the corner and with reports of record ticket sales, the state of the women’s game on the pitch is arguably in a healthier state than ever before. But what of those off it?
The Roar: Taking the Mickey – Pakistan’s perennial plot twist
Features, Print, Sport, The RoarA lot has been made of England’s transformation since their beleaguered 2015 World Cup campaign Down Under.
Back then, their 50-over tournament came to a fitting culmination as England scraped a win in a rain-ridden dead rubber against minnows Afghanistan. In effect, their revival started as all good English revivals do – drowning in a beer-swilled haze of good intentions.
Isabelle Westbury 