Author Archive - Mike Selvey

Watching at Lord's through red rose-tinted glasses

MIKE SELVEY asks how Francis Thompson's famous poem teaches us to both cherish moments of wonder, while reflecting glowingly on the past

02/06/2025 | Mike Selvey | All Members-Only | Features | Premium | News |

Yuvraj Singh's Eureka moment when T20 really took off

MIKE SELVEY looks back on the passage of play that changed everything - when Stuart Broad was dispatched for an over of sixes during the World T20 in 2007

26/05/2025 | Mike Selvey | All Members-Only | Features | Premium | News | International | India |

Why Tom Brady should follow Alex Hartley's example

MIKE SELVEY: The NFL legend has turned to punditry, but he has yet to justify his price tag

23/04/2025 | Mike Selvey | Women's Cricket | Opinion | All Members-Only | Features | Premium | News |

Colin Bland's brilliance threw many a player

MIKE SELVEY: It was muscle memory that instinctively brought the business end of his throw, the forearm, into as near optimum vertical position as possible, which removes the variable of direction from the equation

05/04/2025 | Mike Selvey | South Africa | Features | Premium | News |

Miserly maidens are no longer enough - you need a box full of tricks

MIKE SELVEY was once described as "a master of the defensive new-ball spell" by Mike Gatting but the former seamer admits he would have needed a new set of skills to survive in this era

03/02/2025 | Mike Selvey | All Members-Only | Features | Premium | News | International | County Cricket |

"Playing for England is a privilege, not a right": Players must appreciate international careers

MIKE SELVEY reflects on the importance of playing for your country, which he did in three Test matches, and the "sense of entitlement" that he believes is present in the current England set-up

27/12/2024 | Mike Selvey | All Members-Only | Features | Premium | News | England |

Brian Close: "A cricket mind and memory as sharp as a samurai sword"

The former Yorkshire and Somerset captain was "a force of cricketing nature" remembers MIKE SELVEY

24/12/2024 | Mike Selvey | Yorkshire Men | Somerset Men | All Members-Only | Features | Premium | News | England |

"Understated and inspirational captaincy" elevated Northamptonshire's Jim Watts

The Cricketer presents a 12-part series of the greatest captains to play county cricket from our archive as we prepare to induct a new addition. In part 11 MIKE SELVEY profiles Jim Watts

25/11/2024 | Mike Selvey | Features | Northamptonshire Men | News | County Cricket | County Championship |

How Guardian OBO changed the tune of online cricket coverage

MIKE SELVEY looks back at how The Guardian revolutionised live digital cricket coverage with its Over By Over service

27/10/2024 | Mike Selvey | Features | Premium | News | England |

'Delicate, boyish and drama-free': Catch Joe Root while you can

MIKE SELVEY says Joe Root is not just the best of his generation, but one of the greatest all time

06/10/2024 | Mike Selvey | All Members-Only | Premium | News | England |

A half-century of Graham Gooch centuries, fifty years on from his first first-class hundred

MIKE SELVEY discusses Graham Gooch's first first-class century which was against Leicestershire fifty years ago this month

27/08/2024 | Mike Selvey | All Members-Only | Features | Premium | News | Magazine |

Post-Anderson separation anxiety: "I've never been happier at a Test match than watching Jimmy"

As James Anderson's final Test approaches, MIKE SELVEY pays tribute to England's leading Test wicket-taker

09/07/2024 | Mike Selvey | All Members-Only | Premium | News | ENG v WI | England |

The inside track: Division of the counties doesn't makes sense

MIKE SELVEY: The ECB, a tanker ploughing its way through wave after wave without a proper rudder, calls on the counties to "all pull together"

08/11/2021 | Mike Selvey | Premium |

The inside track: Deserved blow for legend Mikey

MIKE SELVEY: He was so pure of action that you never lost sight of the ball, but it was impossible for some to react beyond simple instinct

21/10/2021 | Mike Selvey | Premium |

The inside track: The Hundred cannot be an island

MIKE SELVEY: So how was it for you? The Hundred that is – the Great Divisor?

21/09/2021 | Mike Selvey | Premium |

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