The Cricketer Magazine | Summer 2025
The summer issue of The Cricketer has a special feature on outgrounds. We ask what place venues like Scarborough, Chesterfield and Cheltenham have in the future of English cricket?
Also in the issue:
• George Dobell says stats don’t do Ben Stokes justice
• In ‘the making of Jamie Smith’, Huw Turbervill talks to teachers, coaches and admirers
• Derek Pringle says it’s time to consider a return to three-day cricket
• Danny Reuben explains his role as England’s head of elite communications
• James Coyne finds out how crowd behaviour has changed in the last 20 years
• Ravi Shastri is the subject of this issue’s ‘facing up’
• Australia legend Ellyse Perry tells Oscar Ress England should not fret
• David Townsend says Wiaan Mulder should have smashed Brian Lara’s record
• Nasser Hussain says confining West Indies to a lower Test tier would do nothing to revive them
• Jarrod Kimber previews the men’s Blast quarter-finals
• Mike Selvey was pleased to see Jeff Thomson back at Lord’s this summer
• Derbyshire historian David Griffin writes about his favourite cricketer, Eddie Barlow
• Tanya Aldred fears that the French will never get into cricket
• We ask whatever happened to ex-England seamer Lucy Pearson
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in The Cricketer Magazine Summer 2025.