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Majid Khan was the quintessential Pakistani player of the bygone age. He was charismatic, elegant, gifted and brave. Majid weaved his magic with the cricket bat in an era of great fast bowlers, and his achievements secured his reputation as one of the country’s greatest opening batsmen. It didn’t matter if the challenge was from a 95 mph thunderbolt from …

Writing about sport throws up a unique challenge. The affection for the subject that most, if not all, sports writers have means that the usual journalistic scepticism wrestles constantly with the desire to believe that what we want to see is what we are seeing. Sport engages because of the glory that comes with achievement, because of its capacity to …

This year has seen a wide range of cricketing subjects tackled by authors, as cricket correspondent Chris Waters discovered. CRICKET has an alarming suicide rate. There have been numerous cases at all levels of the game, the theory being that the sport attracts those of an over-sensitive and melancholic nature. No one in Yorkshire needs reminding of the sad case …

  Mushtaq Ali © Getty Images   The flamboyant Mushtaq Ali was born on December 17, 1914. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at the first Indian batsman to score an overseas Test hundred.     In the 1930s and 1940s, in an era when the world was dominated by World Wars and Don Bradman, Indian batsmanship had reached its first great phase. …

MCC has released its traditional review of the year in video for the first time, with Mark Nicholas presenting the 2013 Cricket Annual through the Club’s digital channels. The 30 minute video looks back at MCC’s cricketing year, and features highlights including England’s Investec Test victory over Australia in July. Other highlights include the Davidstow Village Cup Final, the Club’s …

Warwickshire County Cricket Club has confirmed plans to return to Rugby School – the home of the sport – for an eagerly-anticipated Royal London One-Day Cup clash next summer. The Bears played their inaugural first-team match at Rugby School in July this year when they faced Glamorgan in a sold-out Twenty20 fixture. Gareth Roberts, the club’s commercial director, said: “We’ve …

By Chris Smith Monday 16 December 2013 Updated: 16/12 11:12

The Worcester Standard has recently been rebranded as the Worcester Observer. The Worcester Observer website will now be home to all the latest News, Sport and Entertainment headlines from the Worcester area.

By Dexter Smith, Head of Sport <!––> Make text smaller Make text larger David Hemp scored his second successive fifty Related Stories Arnold Manders lamented Bermudas naivete as they prepared to board a flight back to the Island, having been beaten six times in succession at the World Twenty20 qualifying tournament in the United Arab Emirates. The final denouement came …

Welsh paceman James Harris has been included in the 15-man England Lions squad to face Sri Lanka A in February and March 2014.              The Middlesex seamer, who left Glamorgan at the end of the 2012 season, has just finished a tour with the England Performance Programme squad in Australia where he took five wickets in the final tour victory over …