After a team goes through a big loss, the challenge for both captain and coa­ch is how to pick them up. Dwelling on the disappointment from the side’s last performance is never helpful. But the captai

With due salutes to the batting heroics of Alistair Cook, India thoroughly deserved to win this critical first Test -theirs was the better all-round team performance. These days to see the follow-on e

Playing in a semi-final is a bit like knowing you’re on the guest list but still waiting for the invitation to the wedding.

If you win, you get to go to the wedding but if you lose there is no cake,

Thinking of the losing sides in the first round of the Super Eights, reminded me of a phrase that comes from all those old Wild West spaghetti westerns I used to watch in my teenage years “Last chance

At the half way stage of the World T20, we have finally reached the point where it all should have started.

Hopefully by now the fans back home will be gravitating towards their televisions to watc

One of my coaching heroes and mentors was Brian Clough, the well known English football manager.

Back in the late 70’s, Clough took both his main teams, Derby County and Nottingham Forest from the 2

I met this young man in 2000 on the first trip to Kenya for the Champions Trophy and the first impression left a lasting one. An young man with immense talent, like an uncut diamond waiting to be poli

John Wright

I met this young man in 2000 on the first trip to Kenya for the Champions Trophy and the first impression left a lasting one.

John Wright

Losing is never fun and every cricketer reacts and copes in his different way. Some like to let go and move on. Others withdraw into themselves and reflect alone. For me as a player or a coach, defeat just leaves a cold empty feeling which sometime takes a while to come to terms with.