The View: CricketEurope Columns
Andrew Nixon: 8 May
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Comparing the FairBreak Invitational and the European Cricket Network.
Deryck Vincent: 26 April
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The sun is getting higher, the cool breeze is easing, just a bit. You can smell the new cut grass. Nights are longer, it all adds up to one thing. The start of a cricket season.
Andrew Nixon: 17 April
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A look at the latest announcements by the ICC about women's ODI status for associates and the men's T20 World Cup pathway.
Andrew Nixon: 10 April
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A look at Thailand women's bid for ODI status at the ongoing ICC meetings, and the end of the Kinrara Oval.
Deryck Vincent: March 24
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The best thing about team sport is that you have teammates. I often wonder about individual sports people and the lonely life of their chosen pastime. Perhaps it suits them. But it was team sport for me, cricket in the summer, rugby in the winter. What a treat, 10 teammates in the sun and a whopping 14 in the muck and rain.
Andrew Nixon: 27 February
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To Hull and back - The ICC's haphazard qualifier coverage.
Barry Chambers: 23 February
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India are coming, but where? Andre Previn, Andriy Voronin and keeping the Wolves from the door.
Deryck Vincent: 20 February
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Lewis Patrick (Podge) Hughes is remembered by Deryck Vincent.
Barry Chambers: 10 February
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The recent players’ survey on the Irish grounds used for international games made for very uncomfortable reading for the clubs concerned. But was it fair?
Barry Chambers: 26 January
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All cricketers are equal but some are more equal than others. Animal Farm, the axing of Kevin O'Brien, and grounds for concern, as a damning players survey slams the facilities and grounds in Ireland.
Deryck Vincent: 25 January
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Deryck Vincent argues why left-handers are in a league of their own.
Barry Chambers: 18 January
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There are only three things wrong with this team: they can't bat, they can't bowl and they can't field.
Barry Chambers: 6 January
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Did I miss again? A look at just how badly Ireland's predictions were missed in 2021.
Simon Corlett: 5 January
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With the modern game so favouring batters, is it time ball tampering was allowed to redress the balance argues former Irish international Simon Corlett.
Deryck Vincent: 3 January
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You have heard the argument before, things were better in my day. Like it or not, we have probably all been guilty of making the statement and some definitively so. Maybe they were or perhaps not.
Tim Sullivan: 23 December
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Reading Deryck Vincent’s wonderful recollections of a great game in which we played together in 1986 inspired me to write my appreciation of it, and my experience as an Aussie in Ireland that season.
Barry Chambers: 21 December
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The trials and tribulations of youth squad selections.
Deryck Vincent: 20 December
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Games you can't forget. Clontarf v YMCA, September 6th 1986.
The Andrew Nixon column:19 December
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Reviewing the ICC's streaming service, and a look at Commonwealth Games qualifying.
Barry Chambers: 12 December
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I thought I'd keep things a little light-hearted this week with a look at various people's experiences around the cricketing tea. From pond swill and turnip sandwiches to incredible feasts.
Deryck Vincent: 6 December
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12th man duties: most team sports allow for substitutes, players who can replace injured players, a tactical rejig or let's face it, just because someone is having a shocker.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 21 November
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The end of the ODI Super League and other ICC announcement plus an international round-up.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 14 November
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Scotland and Namibia in the T20 World Cup, ICC rankings nonsense, players with long careers and a round-up of recent qualifiers.
The Andrew NIxon Column: 24 October
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Looking at the performance of the associate sides in the T20 World Cup and what is to come for Scotland & Namibia. Also a round up of recent regional qualifiers.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 17 October
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Looking ahead to a busy period of international cricket, and back at some recent action.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 5 September
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Qualification in the time of Covid, more on the European women's qualifier and an international round-up.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 29 August
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Issues raised by the ongoing European qualifier for the Women's T20 World Cup, answering a question from last week and an international round-up.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 22 August
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Proper cricket and an international round-up.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 8 August
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Paras Khadka's retirement and news from the USA.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 25 July
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Cricket and the Olympics, thoughts on the Hundred and Sandeep Lamichhane missing out again.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 18 July
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Minor League Cricket, the controversy in Malta and Germany's winning run.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 4 July
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Associate players in franchise cricket, the World Cup Super League, more internationals on the way in Europe and whatever happened to the Global T20?
The Andrew Nixon Column: 20 June
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The Intercontinental Cup, time wasting and a feeling of normality.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 6 June
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World Cup expansion - the good, the bad and the unknown.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 30 May
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Mandatory release, dead rubbers, resources in local languages and rivalries resuming.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 23 May
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Common sense scheduling, Netherlands v Scotland and Major League Cricket.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 16 May
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Possible T20 World Cup expansion and return of the Intercontinental Cup, bamboo bats and looking forward to some international cricket.
Barry Chambers Column: 11 May
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Eric Clapton, Finnish snipers, Kawasaki bikes, Divine intervention, age is just a number, generation game, family matters, and it's good to talk, but don't engage.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 9 May
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Covid cancellations - actual and possible - and postponements, but some cricket remains.
Deryck Vincent's Cricket Week: 6 May
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Since I no longer play, coach nor administer the game of cricket, I am a bit of a sideline observer these days, an outsider looking in.
The Barry Chambers Column: 7 May
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Down With This Sort Of Thing. Father Ted marketing ploys, food of the Gods, The Royle Family, fruits of the forbidden tree. My take on the interprovincial at Eglinton.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 2 May
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A deep dive into possible formats for a future 16 team World Cup.
The Barry Chambers Column: 28 April
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The oldest swinger in town, teaching old dogs new tricks, identity crisis, Mike Gatting and Fifteen-to-one.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 25 April
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The European Super League, how many balls in an over, more on Olympic cricket and the Nepal tri-series.
The Barry Chambers Column: 21 April
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A bridge too far, battle for hearts and minds, new stadium on the horizon, record year for the website plus good wishes to umpiring guru Paddy O'Hara.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 18 April
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The language of cricket, the Hundred and its American predecessor, and a chance of Olympic cricket.
The Barry Chambers Column: 14 April
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Cricket Ireland are going to spend, spend spend. Getting more kids to play. Cunning plans, plus how to achieve real inclusion and diversity.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 11 April
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The associate inferiority complex, actual cricket taking place, associates on TV, Canadian season at risk?
The Barry Chambers Column: 7 April
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Grounds for concern and optimism; senior and youth interpro news; kids' play; disappearance of the lefthanders; women's international prospects.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 4 April
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Giving Test status to a team that doesn't exist, USA franchise league, World Cup expansion and ODIs in Spain.
The Barry Chambers Column: 31 March
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Lots and lots of government money for Cricket Ireland to spend. Can Cricket Ireland justify all those cars? A new chairman to replace Ross McCollum. Commonwealth Games presents opportunity to promote women's cricket in Northern Ireland.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 28 March
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Associate overseas players in county cricket, covid cancellations and cricket's intersection with baseball.
The Barry Chambers Column: 24 March
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The Warriors go down a new path, the possibility of Test matches, the new domestic season, competition among the keepers, and the Wolves have been at the door.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 21 March
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Missing the Intercontinental Cup, the Dwayne Leverock catch, UAE player bans and US cricket administration.
The Barry Chambers Column: 17 March
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The disappointment of the Wolves' performance in Bangladesh, still no matches for Ireland's Women, and St Patrick's Day remembered.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 14 March
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Women's world cup expansion, the Auty Cup and the T10 format.
The Barry Chambers Column: 8 March
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A new chairman for Cricket Ireland, fixtures for Ireland's women, runs Down Under, the problems at Abbotstown, a new book on Irish cricket, and the approach of the new season.
The Andrew Nixon Column: 7 March
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The spectre of Covid, USA Under-19 championship, Everest Premier League and the return of Switzerland.
The Barry Chambers Column: 3 March
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The CI awards, ten years on from Bangalore, Ireland's women to play again, a chastening experience for the Wolves, setbacks at Abbotstown.
The Barry Chambers Column: 22 February
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Interpro movement; the Emerging Interpros; women are still waiting, Cricket Ireland staffing issues, and the absence of progress on a national stadium.
The Barry Chambers Column: 15 February
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Cricket Ireland's interprovincial proposals mean there will be no equal distribution of talent, with Leinster Lightning keeping their almost exclusively international squad.
The Barry Chambers Column: 8 February
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Interpro revamp to be unveiled; Irish And National Cups in 2021; Wolves ready to bay.
The Barry Chambers Column: 27 January
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What we learned from Abu Dhabi; Big Roy; the irish Cup and women's international cricket.
The Barry Chambers Column: 13 January
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New year, old problems; pastures new; good news; here come the girls; welcome to the world.