SPIN night with Michael Simkins, July 5

Michael Simkins will be launching his new cricket book at a special event, in association with SPIN, at the Warrington Hotel, London W9 1EH on Tuesday July 5.

Tale of the tape: ICC awards 2010

The Third Umpire watches the 2010 ICC awards and recounts all the ‘high’lights, so you don’t have to.

I ‘like’ Harsha Bhogle. I like Bob Willis. But which one’s best?

The Third Umpire weighs up the dubious lessons of five years’ watching cricket on TV.

Cricket’s gift to comedy and other stories

Has England’s not being hopeless blunted Bob Willis’ pencil?

Is it all over for Bob Willis, Sky Sports’ Pope of Mope? Er, no…

England won the Ashes. So their chief critic Bob Willis should be redundant, right? Not so fast…

Win a Mongoose bat worth £179 on SPIN’s Ashes coverage!

Yep – join in our Ashes prediction game on Hawkeye Pulse and you could win a thick-as-a-brick Mongoose Twenty20 bat, as used by Stuart Law and Lou Vincent

England put India out of ICC World T20

England pulled off a tense three-run win over defending champions India at Lord’s. Click through to read back over our text commentary of the second half

The BBC’s ICC World Twenty20 highlights: any good?

The Third Umpire stays up late and wonders why BBC Sport is stuck so very proudly in the 1980s.

England’s flop and the ‘madcap’ ‘return’ of Harsha Bhogle

The Third Umpire looks back over the first 24 hours of the ICC World Twenty20

That IPL TV coverage: is it really too exciting?

The Third Umpire runs the rule over Mark Nicholas and Simon Doull’s attempts to whip the TV audience into a frenzy

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