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Some cricketers become legends within cricket. Sir Garfield Sobers became the measure of cricketing greatness itself, not simply the greatest all-rounder.

Sobers was not merely one of the greats; he occupied a class entirely his own. Yet numbers and accolades alone cannot explain his lasting hold on the imagination. Viewed in a deeper psychological and historical co...


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The saying “A leopard can’t change its spots” is ringing in my ears. 

Brendon McCullum (BMC) signalled his willingness to adapt and evolve his methods to improve England’s Test performance in the wake of the last Ashes series Down Under. Yet all he specifically promised the ECB chiefs was to make some “tweaks” to England’...


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A worrying thing (for me) is that Joe Root continues to evade what I regard as his true calling and responsibility in the England side. This being the crucial Number 3 spot in the batting order. And it is because he is one of the greats of the game, with his capabilities still in fine working order at age 35 and 6 months, that I am urging him to return to this position – one ...


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Prologue: The Observer from the Fray

It has been eighty-five years since John Corbett (JC) Davis last set down his pen, yet until now, no comprehensive biography has captured the life of the man who essentially invented the modern Australian sporting narrative. This absence from the historical record is a curious silence, given that for over fifty y...


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A worrying thing, for me, is that Joe Root – very fine batsman though he undoubtedly is at Test level – continues to evade what I regard as his true calling, or responsibility, in the England side. Sure, he’s been one of England’s all-time greats; but that is irrelevant for the thrust of this piece!

Overall, Root has tried the crucial Number 3 spot a considerable nu...


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