Hanne, cnerd and Jake welcome back a full schedule of Test cricket as the world tries to catch up on itself. Also featured: Ajit Agarkar and MINDSET.

Martin is a great admirer of Bob Dylan, and Changing of the Guards is his favourite Dylan track, and now we know why he’s had it on a continuous loop all week

Keerthivarman reviews the results of the IPL Auction for the 2021 edition and gives his analysis of how every team went.

Cricket isn’t just the best game to come out of 16th century England, but it’s also one of the best sports to bet on – whether it’s Twenty20, the Ashes, day cricket, or a 5-day test match. True fans know that the 22-yard bat and ball wonder-game is a delight, but newcomers might be a little lost. Below we’ll look at the best bets, strategies, and how to take advantage of the online casino UK bookmakers.

Decision Review System. X-Factor. Super Sub. Power Play. The Hundred. Power Surge. Twenty20. These innovations over the last twenty years and the changed preferences of the audience have turned cricket into something that was barely recognizable from the form in which it was played in the 90s and one can rest assured that it won’t look the same a decade or so in the future.

The 53rd offering in the ACS’ Lives in Cricket series concerns a fast bowler from the earliest days of Derbyshire CCC, and it is one of their very best

The latest offering from Red Rose Books could scarcely have a subject matter further removed from Lancashire, but Martin still seems to have much enjoyed it

With this one we have two writers trying a variation on one of the oldest genres of cricket writing with, it would seem, considerable success

It’s back to Scotland for Martin with this review, of the fifth of Richard Miller’s collections of historic cricket writing