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24 articles have been posted by Andrew Hignell

50 years of one-day cricket
By Andrew Hignell
With the domestic first-class season starting today in Abu Dhabi, it’s an appropriate time to remember that 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of limited-overs cricket into the county calendar,

24/03/2013 (57 days old) | Read more
Statsman: Me and Dad
By Andrew Hignell
I wish I could have had a pound for every time somebody has asked me the question – name the father and son who played for Glamorgan during the 1980s.

08/03/2013 (73 days old) | Read more
Cricket's unbreakable record
By Andrew Hignell
It’s a record that can never be broken, and only one bowler has ever come close to equalling it.

14/02/2013 (95 days old) | Read more
Runs and records warm statisticians
By Andrew Hignell
Temperatures may have plummeted in the UK but there has been plenty to warm the hearts of cricket statisticians in this country and occupy

20/01/2013 (120 days old) | Read more
Glamorgan relish big Rugby day
By Andrew Hignell
Glamorgan, who celebrate their 125th anniversary as a county cricket club in 2013, are looking forward to a special day in July when the 'birthday' actually falls.

12/01/2013 (128 days old) | Read more
Calthorpe and Whitaker eclipse Cook
By Andrew Hignell
Alastair Cook’s bizarre run out in the Kolkata Test against India was the first time in 312 innings in first-class cricket that the opening

08/12/2012 (163 days old) | Read more
Cook and Pietersen boost England
Alastair Cook and Kevin Pietersen batted England dramatically back into the second Test with a century stand of great character and skill in Mumbai.

24/11/2012 (177 days old) | Read more
Hasan maintains underdog traditions
By Andrew Hignell
A century scored by a tailender always grabs the interest of cricket followers. Everyone loves an underdog. For some of those players normally stationed at numbers 10 or 11 in the

24/11/2012 (177 days old) | Read more
Runs plentiful in Indian domestic game
By Andrew Hignell
The week before the start of England’s four-Test series with India has seen some remarkable batting performances in the domestic first-class competition there.

13/11/2012 (188 days old) | Read more
2012: the worst year for batting?
By Andrew Hignell
The 2012 season was played in the wettest summer, from a cricketing point of view, since the introduction of two-divisional County Championship cricket in 2000, while in meteorological terms it was

06/11/2012 (195 days old) | Read more
Statistics confirm 2012 rain damage
By Andrew Hignell
The so-called summer of 2012 was, from a meteorological point of view, the wettest for a hundred years. As far as

29/10/2012 (203 days old) | Read more
Wettest summer for 100 years: the details
By Andrew Hignell
It's official: 2012 has been the wettest summer for exactly a hundred years

15/09/2012 (247 days old) | Read more
White Rose bedraggled but still blooming
By Andrew Hignell
The summer of 2012 is finally over – well, at least it is from a meteorological point of view, with September 1 marking the start of autumn. For the weather-beaten cricketers of

03/09/2012 (259 days old) | Read more
CB40 group finale sums up rain-hit summer
By Andrew Hignell
A microcosm of the summer of 2012 in all its watery entirety was seen in the the last round of Clydesdale Bank 40 group games on Monday August 27.

29/08/2012 (264 days old) | Read more
Who else will join the 'Compton club'?
By Andrew Hignell
A thousand runs in the County Championship – it’s the target most batsmen set themselves in the four-day competition at the start of the summer and also the yardstick by which comparisons are

12/08/2012 (281 days old) | Read more
An unwanted century for Yorkshire
By Andrew Hignell
Yorkshire have set an unwanted record in this soggy summer, becoming the first county to top 100 hours of lost cricket in the LV= County Championship.

22/07/2012 (302 days old) | Read more
Soggy FLt20: a horror story
By Andrew Hignell
Today, on the morning after the completion of the Friends Life t20 group stage, TheCricketer.com can reveal the full horror of the disruption caused by bad weather to

09/07/2012 (315 days old) | Read more
Uneven pattern to t20 weather
By Andrew Hignell
Being - roughly - at the halfway point in the group stage of the Friends Life t20 competition, it is an appropriate time to see how the weather has been affecting

25/06/2012 (329 days old) | Read more
Tom Maynard - a tribute
By Andrew Hignell
There was never any doubt that Tom Maynard, born just nine months after his father Matthew’s Test match debut would, one day, be a professional cricketer

23/06/2012 (331 days old) | Read more
Statistics reveal huge extent of county rain disruption
By Andrew Hignell
The 2012 season could prove to be one of the dampest of recent times if the level of weather disruption experienced across the country during the past few days continues

10/06/2012 (344 days old) | Read more
Compton denied place in exclusive club
By Andrew Hignell
So rain has cruelly prevented Nick Compton from becoming the ninth batsman in first-class cricket history to score 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May.

31/05/2012 (354 days old) | Read more
Bad weather now influencing Championship positions
By Andrew Hignell
The prolonged bad weather that has afflicted the start of the season is now beginning to have a clear influence on where each of the 18 first-class counties lie in the LV= County Championship tables.

14/05/2012 (371 days old) | Read more
Statistical eyes on Wallace at Derby
By Andrew Hignell
Cricket is a game which delights statisticians and mathematicians in almost equal measure, and more than a cursory eye will be kept by the number crunchers

14/05/2012 (371 days old) | Read more
Durham the major victims of soggy April
By Andrew Hignell
It was something more akin to the onset of the annual monsoon in southern India as weather forecasters showed satellite images of a

29/04/2012 (386 days old) | Read more

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