SPIN and Hugh Morris

In the May edition of SPIN, we published a piece containing negative comments about Hugh Morris, the managing director of England cricket.

SPIN is happy to clarify that no suggestion of impropriety or lack of professionalism by Hugh Morris was intended…

Sport Beefy: Spin reviews Botham’s Christmas offering

Ian Botham selects his top 50 sporting icons in his new book. Allan Lamb and Sebastian Coe feature. Mike Brearley and Steve Ovett don’t…

Time to deliver

George Dobell’s patience with Stuart Broad is beginning to wane

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

Test Match Special: the (rather cosy) inside story

Ex-producer Peter Baxter takes us behind 40 years of TMS in his new book…

What’s it all about, Alfie?

Ex-Aussie opener Justin Langer wants to help you make the best of yourself. And, to that end, he’s written a book about the nature of mental strength…

Back to the future

West Indies cricket godfather Learie Constantine would surely have loved the Stanford T20, if an excellent new biography is anything to go by

Cricket comedy. No, wait!

What I love about cricket

Sandy Balfour (Ebury, £10.99)
I have a terrible fear that the SPIN office bookshelves will not be able to bear the weight of too many more tomes explaining cricket in a semi-’humorous’ fashion to the uninitiated. This is not just – SPIN podcast devotees, please note– a comment on the DIY skills [...]

Hooray for medium pace

If cricket is a village, hapless club skipper Roger Dervish may well be the idiot. SPIN enjoys cricket’s greatest (and, possibly, only) sitcom.

The demands of genius

 
Brian Lara: cricket’s troubled genius
By Brian Scovell.
Stadia, £18.99
From SPIN October 2007

‘Please, be lenient with me,’ Brian Lara reportedly pleaded with a West Indies official in 1995, “Cricket has ruined my life.” 
Global fame and its attendant pressures attached themselves quickly to the man who twice broke the Test scoring record and whose 501* for Warwickshire [...]

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