SPIN and Hugh Morris
January 17, 2010 by SPIN
Filed under Features, Reviews, Star interviews
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
December 27, 2009 by Duncan Steer
Filed under News, Reviews
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
July 10, 2009 by George Dobell
Filed under Featured Content, News, Reviews
George Dobell’s patience with Stuart Broad is beginning to wane
England’s flop and the ‘madcap’ ‘return’ of Harsha Bhogle
June 6, 2009 by The Third Umpire
Filed under Features, Opinion, Reviews, The Third Umpire
The Third Umpire looks back over the first 24 hours of the ICC World Twenty20
Test Match Special: the (rather cosy) inside story
April 5, 2009 by Duncan Steer
Filed under Reviews
Ex-producer Peter Baxter takes us behind 40 years of TMS in his new book…
What’s it all about, Alfie?
March 17, 2009 by Jono Russell
Filed under Reviews
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
March 17, 2009 by Duncan Steer
Filed under Reviews
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!
March 13, 2009 by Duncan Steer
Filed under Reviews
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
March 13, 2009 by Duncan Steer
Filed under Reviews, Uncategorized
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
March 13, 2009 by Duncan Steer
Filed under Reviews
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 [...]






