Writes on northern county cricket for the Guardian newspaper, and the Wisden Cricketer magazine, and was previously at the Manchester Evening News. Says he had a childhood dream of becoming the next Frank Hayes, but sadly his own  ...

Has been covering Sussex cricket since 1994 for the Brighton Evening Argus, and has also written on the county for the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack and The Wisden Cricketer magazine. He is also the co-author of several books, alongside  ...

Retired from playing at the end of the 2008 after a 21-year career which began with 10 summers for his native Derbyshire and ended, gloriously, with 11 years of huge success as Sussex captain. In that time, Adams led Sussex to the only  ...

One of the leading chroniclers of cricket over the past four decades, he is perhaps best-known for his commentary on BBC Radio’s Test Match Special since 1973. But he is also a former cricket correspondent of both The Times and Daily  ...

Led Durham to their historic first County Championship title in 2008, at the end of his third and final season as captain. 

A former captain of Kent, whom he led from 2002 to 2005. An opening batsman, he first played for Kent in 1992, and retired from the game after the 2006 season to begin a media career. Is a regular cricket reporter and commentator for Sky  ...

An Ashes hero in 2005, he has kept wicket for England in 34 Tests and 49 ODIs. First played for Kent in 2001 and was capped only in 2003. He made his Test debut in April 2004 and, though born in Papua New Guinea and brought up in  ...

Ian Bishop played 43 Tests for West Indies between 1989 and 1998 as a very fine fast bowler, taking 161 wickets at an average of 24.27. He also took 118 wickets in 84 ODIs, but his international career was twice interrupted by serious  ...

A long-term member of Australia’s great bowling attack (predominantly alongside Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee and Shane Warne) in their golden decade from the mid-1990s onwards, Gillespie took 259 wickets in his 71 Tests, at an average of 26.13, and a  ...

Captained England in two Tests during the ill-fated 1988 series against the West Indies, and overall played 64 Tests as a dependable off-spinner and useful, if unconventional, late middle-order batsman. In a first-class career which  ...

The BBC cricket correspondent since 1991, he is the linchpin of BBC Radio’s iconic Test Match Special programme. Known throughout cricket as ‘Aggers’, he has also been the editor of the Cricket Year annual since 1999. Played first-class  ...

Played 76 Tests for England between 2000 and 2006, scoring 5,825 runs at an average of 43.79, with 14 hundreds. A punishing opening batsman, he also made 12 one-day international centuries. Has retired from international cricket because  ...

Has written on county cricket for The Times since 1998, and was previously at the Press Association for 13 years, becoming cricket correspondent. Also covered county cricket for regional newspapers in the early 1980s. Has been assistant  ...

The chief cricket writer for the Kent Messenger Group of newspapers from 1993 until 2008, he now heads up the Kent & Sussex Sport agency and, in that capacity, still reports on Kent cricket as well as regular matches involving  ...

Became only the 25th batsman in the history of the game to score 100 first-class hundreds when he reached the landmark, playing for Surrey against Yorkshire, on August 2, 2008. First played for Middlesex as a 17-year-old in 1987, and  ...

Learned his trade in local newspapers, including a lengthy spell covering both Leicestershire County Cricket Club and Leicester Tigers Rugby Club for the Leicester Mercury, but sprang to national attention when he joined the newly-formed  ...

Formerly with the Birmingham Post and Mail, he has written on Midlands cricket – and predominantly Warwickshire and Worcestershire – for more than a decade for the Daily Telegraph. He is also a regular contributor to The Wisden Cricketer  ...

Has covered Essex cricket, home and away, for more than a decade and has contributed comprehensive features and match reports to a number of local daily and weekly newsgroups, plus the county’s own Year Book. He has  ...

Formerly with the Bristol Evening Post, he is now managing director of the Bristol and West News Agency Ltd. and has reported on both Somerset and Gloucestershire cricket for more than 20 years. Has written regularly for the Western Daily  ...

Has written on Glamorgan cricket since 1989 and covered Glamorgan’s most successful era during which they won the 1993 Sunday League, the 1997 County Championship and two one-day league titles in 2002 and 2004. He was  ...

Made his Glamorgan debut in 1989 and went on to captain the county from 2003 to 2006 as well as winning 21 Test and 50 ODI caps for England between 1996 and 2001. Predominantly an off-spinner, with more than 1,000 first-class wickets to  ...

Made his Sussex debut in 1995 and, as a genuine county all-rounder, has played a leading role in the club’s unprecedented success since 2003, when a historic first County Championship was clinched on a wonderfully sunny September day at  ...

A cousin of British champion boxer and Olympic hero Amir Khan, this son of a Bolton policeman has so far played eight Tests and 25 ODIs for England but has been out of favour in both formats of the international game since the Ashes tour  ...

Commentated first on BBC Radio's Test Match Special programme during the 1996-97 England tour of Zimbabwe, having previously covered two England A tours for the BBC, and since then has become a regular member of the TMS commentary  ...

Born in St Leonards, Sydney, he is the man widely regarded as the world’s leading umpire, played New South Wales Schools cricket alongside Adam Gilchrist, and later also represented North Sydney and Mosman in grade cricket as a fast-medium bowler.  ...

Now playing for Derbyshire mainly in one-day cricket, Law has enjoyed a prolific run-scoring career with his native Queensland and previously with Essex and Lancashire in county cricket. Has scored more than 27,000 first-class runs at an average of  ...

The only journalist to have covered Durham, home and away, since their elevation in 1992 to first-class county status. Has written regularly for the Northern Echo newspaper, for the Daily Telegraph, and also the Wisden Cricketers’  ...

Tony Cozier has been a cricket writer and commentator on West Indian cricket since 1958 and a member of the BBC's Test Match Special commentary team since 1966. His father was the respected Barbados journalist Jimmy Cozier, and one of Tony’s many  ...

The long-serving cricket correspondent of The Observer, he also now writes regularly for The Guardian and has been a popular member of the Test Match Special commentary team for the past two decades. His own playing career was an  ...

Worcestershire captain and chairman of the Professional Cricketers’ Association, he is a highly-talented strokemaking batsman who won 51 ODI caps for England between 2000 and 2006 and also played in the inaugural ICC World Twenty20, in South Africa  ...