The Tuesday column in which Steven Lynch answers your questions on all things cricket. Challenge him on Facebook Also, records for neutral venues, fastest hundreds and most expensive T20 overs Shane Warne: best figures - 11 for 188 in Colombo - in a neut

A hot bowl of kedgeree, I like to think, is how David Gower prepares for his early-morning Test-match duty in the winter, eaten in his dressing gown as he reclines on his chaise longue, pondering the theme of the day. Gower likes a theme. Once determined

Fast bowler Steve Harmison’s admission in a BBC documentary that he suffered from depression has focussed attention once more on this least understood of maladies afflicting a sportsman. Although it is simplistic to bunch everything together, from clinic

Former England Fast bowler Steve Harmison's admission in a BBC documentary that he suffered from depression has focused attention once more on this least understood of maladies afflicting a sportsman. Although it is simplistic to bunch everything togethe

Steve Harmison admitted to Andrew Flintoff his problems peaked on England's 2004/05 tour of South Africa © Getty Images Steve Harmison has become the latest England cricketer to face up to the possibility that he was afflicted by clinical depression dur

The idea that sport is in any way a morally improving activity should really be insupportable by now, after years of match-fixing, dope scandals and football-star spit-roasts. But the notion that it is character-building still stubbornly clings on. Compe

This talk of fresh starts and new slates is a motif of all pre-Pakistan series pronouncements, one that has sadly rung hollow over the past 58 years as another regrettable episode of this uncommonly controversial rivalry arises to undermine the best inte

Incontinence on the sub-continent goes with the territory for tourists. Past England trips of the Eastern regions have been more notable for Delhi belly, ducks and defeats than any semblance of a cricket team. In 1993, Graham Gooch's backroom staff set

1) India’s batting slump is chronic, not acute It is a truth universally acknowledged that you can prove anything you want using Statsguru, but the weight of numbers is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: batting-wise, 2011 has been India’s wo

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LIVING ON THE EDGE: The undoubted talent of Australian opening batsman Phil Hughes is struggling to blossom at test level. If a film were to be made about him right now, it could well be called The Curious Case of Phillip Hughes. The left-handed open

Familiar story ... Phil Hughes edges one during the Ashes Fifth Test at the SCG. Photo: Quentin Jones If a film were to be made about him right now, it could well be called The Curious Case of Phillip Hughes. The left-handed opener from Macksville isn't

IF A film were to be made about him right now, it could well be called The Curious Case of Phillip Hughes. The left-handed opener from Macksville in New South Wales isn't living his life backwards but there are those that will argue his Test career has b

Australian opener Phil Hughes edges one to slips, was dropped, and repeated the dose the very next ball to be dismissed for seven. Picture: AFP Source: Herald Sun PHIL Hughes' batting woes are so bad that even downtrodden New Zealand is pleading for the

PHIL Hughes' batting woes are so bad that even downtrodden New Zealand is pleading for the confidence-stripped opener to play in Friday's Hobart Test. Hughes' embarrassing Gabba dismissal - caught at gully the ball after being dropped at second slip - co

Michael Clarke launched an impassioned defence of Phillip Hughes but the selection axe hovers menacingly over the struggling opener after an embarrassing failure at the Gabba on Sunday. Hughes' immediate Test future is again in grave doubt after he of

So there I am. Laying on my backside throwing a mini American Football up in the air watching the news. The local news starts with a report on a group of protesters who have occupied the Art Gallery at Brighton University. They haven’t decided how long t

FORMER England fast bowler Steve Harmison will switch on the Christmas lights display in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea tomorrow. The Ashington-born former Test star will perform the switch on at 6pm in the town’s recently-refurbished Quay Wall area. It will be th

A SCOUT and a cricket club are in the money, thanks to Wansbeck Centre for Voluntary Service’s Vantage Fund. England cricketer Steve Harmison presented Bomarsund Welfare Cricket Club with £125 to help it pay for three young people to be trained up as coa